Deep Forest Canopy
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Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

Gray-headed Chickadee

Poecile cinctus

The grey-headed chickadee or Siberian tit 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.

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