Willow Tit © Sue Tranter

May form a superspecies with Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) and Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), possibly also including Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) and/or Mexican Chickadee (Poecile sclateri). Has been considered conspecific with Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), but DNA studies indicate that the two are not closely related genetically.

Known to have hybridized with Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris), Siberian Tit (Poecile cinctus), Varied Tit (Sittiparus varius), Coal Tit (Periparus ater) and Great Tit (Parus major). Subspecies songarus, affinis, weigoldicus and stoetzneri sometimes treated as representing a separate species; genetic evidence suggests weigoldicus alone may be a separate species. Geographical variation largely clinal, and subspecies intergrade widely; species sometimes considered possibly monotypic, with high degree of variation within populations. Further research and review required, particularly of relationship between baicalensis and stoetzneri.

Other proposed subspecies include colletti (from western Norway) and lonnbergi (northern Scandinavia and north-western Russia), both synonymized with borealis; transsylvanicus (Carpathians and Transylvanian Alps, in south-eastern Europe) and rhodopeus (south-eastern Macedonia, Greece and Bulgaria), both merged with nominate; shulpini (Ussuriland) differs only clinally from baicalensis; and suschkini (eastern Tarbagatai Mts), probably of hybrid origin, but provisionally included within songarus.

The following 15 subspecies are recognised:

• kleinschmidti (Hellmayr, 1900)   -  Britain.
• rhenanus (Kleinschmidt, O, 1900)   -  Western Europe (except Britain) from north-western France east to western Germany and northern Switzerland, south to extreme northern Italy.
• montanus (Conrad von Baldenstein, 1827)   -  South-eastern France (Jura) to Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and northern and central Greece.
• salicarius (Brehm, CL, 1831)   -  Germany and western Poland south to north-eastern Switzerland and Austria.
• borealis (de Sélys-Longchamps, 1843)   -  Fennoscandia, Baltic Republics and European Russia south to western Ukraine.
• uralensis (Grote, 1927)   -  South-eastern European Russia, western Siberia and northern Kazakhstan.
• baicalensis Swinhoe, 1871   -  Eastern Russia (Yenisey Basin and Altai east to western coast of Sea of Okhotsk), northern Mongolia, north-western and north-eastern China (Xinjiang; Manchuria) and northern Korea.
• anadyrensis (Belopolski, 1932)   -  Extreme north-eastern Siberia south to northern Okhotsk coast.
• kamtschatkensis Bonaparte, 1850   -  Kamchatka.
• sachalinensis (Lönnberg, 1908)   -  Sakhalin I.
• restrictus (Hellmayr, 1900)   -  Japan.
• songarus (Severtsov, 1873)   -  South-eastern Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (central and eastern Tien Shan) east to north-western China (north-western Xinjiang). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Songar Tit (Poecile songara).
• affinis Przewalski, 1876   -  North-central China (north-eastern Qinghai, Gansu, northern Sichuan, Ningxia and south-western Shaanxi).
• weigoldicus (O. Kleinschmidt, 1921)   -  South-central China (eastern Xizang, south-eastern Qinghai, western Sichuan and north-western Yunnan). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Sichuan Tit (Parus weigoldicus).
• stoetzneri (Kleinschmidt, O, 1921)   -  North-eastern China (south-eastern Nei-Mongol and Shanxi east to Hebei and Henan).

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