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title: "Siberian Tit"
description: "Poecile cinctus — Uccelli. The grey-headed chickadee or Siberian tit (Poecile cinctus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/siberian-tit
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Siberian Tit

> Poecile cinctus — Uccelli. The grey-headed chickadee or Siberian tit (Poecile cinctus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.

- Scientific name: *Poecile cinctus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 829
- Wikidata: [Q574447](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q574447)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144822](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144822)

## Names

- en: Siberian Tit
- de: Lapplandmeise
- es: Carbonero Lapón
- fr: Mésange lapone
- pt: Chapim-da-lapónia
- pl: Sikora północna

## Countries with the most observations

RU (595), FI (144), NO (29), SE (15)

## Summary

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…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-headed_chickadee

## Photo

![Siberian Tit](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/siberian-tit/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/116265676

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/siberian-tit?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).