Rufous-vented tit

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

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.

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Taxonomy

The tit was formerly placed in the genus Parus . [2] The four subspecies are:

Distribution and habitat

From Lungthu, Pangolakha WLS in East Sikkim, India. Rufous-vented Tit Lungthu Pangolakha WLS East Sikkim India 18.10.2015.jpg
From Lungthu, Pangolakha WLS in East Sikkim, India.

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. [4]

Footnotes

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Periparus rubidiventris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22711780A94308455. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22711780A94308455.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. Gill et al. (2005)
  3. Bangs (1932)
  4. Inskipp et al. (2000), BLI (2008)

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