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Passeriformes / Paridae / Poecile

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Poecile rufescens

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (chbchi) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Taxonomy

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paridae
Genus: Poecile

Subspecies (3)

Poecile rufescens barlowi

coastal southern California (San Francisco Bay to Santa Barbara County)
Poecile rufescens neglectus

coastal California (southwestern Marin County)
Poecile rufescens rufescens

Alaska to coastal central California and Sierra Nevada of northern California, and disjunctly in Rocky Mountains from southeastern British Columbia southwards to west-central Idaho and northwestern Montana

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (chbchi) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.