Pale-eyed Black Tit (Melaniparus guineensis)

Other Names (World)
Pale-eyed Black Tit, White-shouldered Tit, White-shouldered Black Tit, White-shouldered Black-Tit

Family
Paridae (Tits And Chickadees)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shelley, 1900)

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Cote dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau (B), Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Southern Senegal and southern Mauritania east to southern Sudan and northern Eritrea, south to central Ivory Coast, south-eastern Cameroon, northern DRCongo, Uganda and extreme western Kenya.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

White-shouldered Black Tit (Melaniparus guineensis) [XC400358]
by Bram Piot from Kalakpa Forest, Ghana (song)

White-shouldered Black Tit (Melaniparus guineensis) [XC418542]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from Shai Hills Reserve (south), Greater Accra Region, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Dark-eyed Black Tit (Melaniparus leucomelas) and Pale-eyed Black Tit (Melaniparus guineensis) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Parus leucomelas following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Forms a superspecies with Dark-eyed Black Tit (Melaniparus leucomelas), Southern Black Tit (Melaniparus niger), Carp's Tit (Melaniparus carpi) and White-bellied Tit (Melaniparus albiventris), possibly also including White-backed Black Tit (Melaniparus leuconotus). Often considered conspecific with Dark-eyed Black Tit (Melaniparus leucomelas), and the two occur in mixed flocks in Uganda, but they differ in eye colour, and no evidence of intergrades. Further research required.

References
See References.

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