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title: "Yellow-cheeked Tit"
description: "Machlolophus spilonotus — Vogels. The yellow-cheeked tit (Machlolophus spilonotus) is a species of bird in the family Paridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/yellow-cheeked-tit
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Yellow-cheeked Tit

> Machlolophus spilonotus — Vogels. The yellow-cheeked tit (Machlolophus spilonotus) is a species of bird in the family Paridae.

- Scientific name: *Machlolophus spilonotus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 907
- Wikidata: [Q27075367](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27075367)
- iNaturalist taxon: [513972](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/513972)

## Names

- en: Yellow-cheeked Tit
- de: Königsmeise
- es: Carbonero carigualdo chino
- fr: Mésange à dos tacheté
- it: Cincia guancegialle
- pl: Sikora żółtolica

## Countries with the most observations

HK (323), CN (217), TH (133), IN (97), BT (33), VN (26), MM (10)

## Summary

The yellow-cheeked tit (Machlolophus spilonotus) is a species of bird in the family Paridae. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. Its range extends across the eastern Himalayas, southern China and Indochina.

The yellow-cheeked tit was formerly one of the many species in the genus Parus but was moved to Machlolophus after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2013 showed that the members of the new genus formed a distinct clade.

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

## Photo

![Yellow-cheeked Tit](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-cheeked-tit/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/210974621

## Machine access

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