Rufous-vented tit

Rufous-vented tit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paridae
Genus: Periparus
Species: P. rubidiventris
Binomial name
Periparus rubidiventris
(Blyth, 1847)
Synonyms
  • Parus rubidiventris Blyth, 1847
  • Parus rufonuchalis beavani (Jerdon, 1863)
Global range
Blue = rubidiventris
Yellow = beavani
Red = whistleri
Green = saramatii

The rufous-vented tit (Periparus rubidiventris) is an Asian songbird species in the tit and chickadee family (Paridae). Some of its subspecies were formerly assigned to its western relative the rufous-naped tit (P. rufonuchalis), or these two were considered entirely conspecific.

Taxonomy

The tit was formerly placed in the genus Parus.[1] The four subspecies are:

Distribution and habitat

This tit is a native of the western Himalayas, but has a very large range, occurring in parts of Bhutan, China, Pakistan, India, Myanmar and Nepal. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and temperate forests. In Bhutan for example, P. r. beavani is a rather common all-year resident in moist Bhutan fir (Abies densa) forests, between approximately 3,000 and 4,000 meters ASL. Widespread and by no means rare, it is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.[3]

From Lungthu, Pangolakha WLS in East Sikkim, India.

Footnotes

  1. Gill et al. (2005)
  2. Bangs (1932)
  3. Inskipp et al. (2000), BLI (2008)

References

External links

Media related to Periparus rubidiventris at Wikimedia Commons

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