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 LC    Green-backed Tit* Id (Atlas):
    Parus monticolus

Description (10)
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Family
Paridae (Tits And Chickadees)

Size
12.50 - 14.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Vigors, 1831

Habitat
Temperate forest. From 100 - 3,960 m.

Range (Guide)
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Laos (B), Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan (China), Vietnam.

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

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (101)...)

 
Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus) [XC805698]
     by Lars Lachmann from \u6728\u9c7c\uff0cHubei Province Shen Nongjia NR, China (song)

 
Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus) [XC115019]
     by Mike Nelson from Forest below Takstang Monastery, Paro, Bhutan (call)

Subspecies
Part of a species group which includes also Great Tit (Parus major), Turkestan Tit (Parus bokharensis) and White-naped Tit (Machlolophus nuchalis). Nominate subspecies and yunnanensis intergrade in western Nepal.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • monticolus Vigors, 1831   -  Western and central Himalayas from northern Pakistan east to western Nepal and south-western China (southern Xizang).
  • yunnanensis La Touche, 1922   -  Eastern Himalayas east to north-eastern India (including southern Assam), central and southern China (southern Gansu and southern Shaanxi south to southern Yunnan and Guizhou), west, northern and north-eastern Myanmar, extreme north-western Vietnam and central Laos.
  • legendrei Delacour, 1927   -  Langbian, in south-central Vietnam.
  • insperatus Swinhoe, 1866   -  Taiwan.



References
See References.


Files:
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