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Gray-headed Chickadee
Poecile cinctus (Boddaert, 1783)
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
The grey-headed chickadee or Siberian tit (Poecile cinctus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread resident breeder throughout subarctic Scandinavia and the northern Palearctic, and also into North America in Alaska and the far northwest of Canada. It is a conifer specialist. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate.
It is a fairly large tit, at 12.5–14 cm long and with a weight of 11–14.3 g intermediate between willow tit and great tit. The head is dark brown (darkest on the throat and eyestripe, the crown slightly paler) with white cheeks, the mantle cinnamon-brown, the wing feathers blackish with pale fringes, and the underparts whitish with pale rusty-brown flanks.
Wikipedia contributors, Grey-headed chickadee; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T07:49:15.638529+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Poecile cinctus (Boddaert, 1783)
- Name authority
- (Boddaert, 1783)
- Common name
- Gray-headed Chickadee
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Paridae
- Genus
- Poecile
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classAves
- orderPasseriformes
- familyParidae Vigors, 1825
- genusPoecile Kaup, 1829
- speciesPoecile cinctus (Boddaert, 1783)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Poecile. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis (Audubon, 1834) | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pere David's TitPoecile davidi Berezowski & Bianchi, 1891 | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boreal ChickadeePoecile hudsonicus (J. R. Forster, 1772) | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Willow TitPoecile montanus (Conrad von Baldenstein, 1827) | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mountain ChickadeePoecile gambeli (Ridgway, 1886) | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-bibbed TitPoecile hypermelaenus Berezowski & Bianchi, 1891 | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sombre TitPoecile lugubris (Temminck, 1820) | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Marsh TitPoecile palustris (Linnaeus, 1758) | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mexican ChickadeePoecile sclateri (Kleinschmidt, 1897) | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-browed TitPoecile superciliosus Przevalski, 1876 | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sichuan TitPoecile weigoldicus (Kleinschmidt, 1921) | ParidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Poecile cincta (Boddaert, 1783) (Boddaert, 1783) | synonym |
| Parus cinctus Boddaert, 1783 Boddaert, 1783 | synonym |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
North America
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=554384 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:4KSBX. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.