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Willow Tit

Poecile montanus · Family Paridae

Poecile montanus

Family Paridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Paridae
GBIF occurrence records
1,343,735
Countries and territories with records
49
Willow Tit
Unknown · Parus atricapillus 2 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Unknown · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Alexander Kurthy · Poecile_montanus_-_Willow_Tit_XC107686.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Alexander Kurthy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 1,343,735 occurrence records from 49 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Finland (30.3%), Sweden (27.8%), Norway (17.9%), Germany (4.1%) and Russia (3.8%); together they account for 84% of the total. In Finland, this species accounts for 1.7% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Poecile montanus combines the genus name Poecile with the species epithet montanus. The Warbla app catalog lists 15 species of the genus Poecile; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Poecile atricapillus, Poecile carolinensis and Poecile rufescens.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 61 species of the family Paridae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Poecile atricapillus. Its record count is close to the family average (1,310,770). The family Paridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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