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Marsh Tit

Poecile palustris · Family Paridae

Poecile palustris

Family Paridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Paridae
GBIF occurrence records
1,529,628
Countries and territories with records
65
Marsh Tit
Stephan Sprinz · Sumpfmeise im NSG Hirschacker und Dossenwald 2.jpg · CC BY 4.0 · Stephan Sprinz · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 1,529,628 occurrence records from 65 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (29.6%), France (19%), Germany (10.8%), Denmark (10.6%) and Norway (6.2%); together they account for 76.2% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.44% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Poecile palustris combines the genus name Poecile with the species epithet palustris. 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 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Poecile atricapillus. Its record count is 1.2 times 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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