IOC Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Cladus: Amniota • Cladus: Reptilia • Cladus: Archosauria • Classis: Aves • Superordo: Neognathae • Ordo: Passeriformes • Subordo: Passeri • Infraordo: Passerida • Superfamilia: Sylvioidea • Familia: Paridae • Genus: Poecile • Species: Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766

Photographs

Sitting bird filling most of the image

  • Greater Madawaska Township, Canada
    Greater Madawaska Township, Canada
  • Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada
    Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada
  • Greater Madawaska Township, Canada
    Greater Madawaska Township, Canada
  • Greater Madawaska Township, Canada
    Greater Madawaska Township, Canada
  • Glastonbury CT USA
    Glastonbury CT USA

Smaller bird, a bit of interesting behavior

In flight

Illustrations

  • Poecile atricapillus (common: Chickadee) Plate 10, No. 2. in: Birdcraft, 1897
    Poecile atricapillus
    (common:
    Chickadee)
    Plate 10,
    No. 2. in:
    Birdcraft,
    1897
  • Poecile atricapillus (common: Chick-a-dee) Plate 6 in: A Manual of Bird Study
    Poecile atricapillus
    (common:
    Chick-a-dee)
    Plate 6 in:
    A Manual of Bird Study
  • Acrylic painting
    Acrylic painting

Song

Range maps

Distribution