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Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Poecile rufescens · Family Paridae
Poecile rufescens
Family Paridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Paridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,115,247
- Countries and territories with records
- 4
About this species
This species has 2,115,247 occurrence records from 4 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (79.4%) and Canada (20.6%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.15% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Poecile rufescens combines the genus name Poecile with the species epithet rufescens. 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 palustris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 61 species of the family Paridae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Poecile atricapillus. Its record count is 1.6 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.