Black-browed bushtit

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Black-browed bushtit
Acredula bonvaloti - Annales des sciences naturelles (1891) (18017149158) (cropped) 2.jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Aegithalidae
Genus: Aegithalos
Species:
A. bonvaloti
Binomial name
Aegithalos bonvaloti
(Oustalet, 1892)
Subspecies [2]
  • A. b. bonvaloti - (Oustalet, 1892)
  • A. b. obscuratus - (Mayr, 1940)
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The black-browed bushtit or black-browed tit (Aegithalos bonvaloti) is a species of bird in the family Aegithalidae. It is found in mid-southern China and sporadically in Myanmar. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and temperate forests. It was formerly considered conspecific with the rufous-fronted tit (A. iouschistos) of the central and eastern Himalayas but is now often regarded as a separate species. Sometimes the subspecies A. b. sharpei (Burmese tit) of western Burma is also treated as a species.

It is a small, long-tailed bird, 11–12 centimetres (4.3–4.7 in) long. It has grey upperparts, rufous breast and flanks and a white belly. The head is buff with a broad black mask, white forehead and a white bib, speckled black in the centre. The Burmese tit has white rather than buff on the head, a dark breastband and a buff belly.

References

  1. BirdLife International. (2024). "Aegithalos bonvaloti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2024: e.T22736055A264196896. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22736055A264196896.en . Retrieved 19 February 2025.
  2. Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P. (eds.). "IOC World Bird List: Welcome". IOC World Bird List . Version 10.2.