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 LC    Tibetan Ground-Jay* Id (Atlas):
    Pseudopodoces humilis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Ground Tit, Tibetan Ground Tit, Tibetan Ground-Jay, Groundpecker, Hume's Groundpecker, Hume's Ground Chough, Hume's Ground Jay, Brown Ground Chough

Family
Paridae (Tits And Chickadees)

Size
16.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hume, 1871)

Habitat
Temperate grassland, high altitude grassland. From 3,100 - 5,500 m.

Range (Guide)
China (mainland), India, Nepal.

South-western and central China (south-western Xinjiang and southern and eastern Qinghai-Xizang Plateau east to Ningxia and Gansu, south to southern and south-eastern Xizang, north-eastern Yunnan and western Sichuan), also south-eastern Ladakh, northern Nepal and Sikkim.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)...)

 
Ground Tit (Pseudopodoces humilis) [XC491499]
     by Peter Boesman from Alashan hills between Chaka and Dulan, Qinghai, China (call)

 
Ground Tit (Pseudopodoces humilis) [XC491504]
     by Peter Boesman from Yushu airport area, Qinghai, China (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Until recently placed with the crows in family Corvidae, often in the ground-jay genus Podoces. Osteological, morphological and vocal characters, however, indicate that it belongs in present family, a treatment supported by mitochondrial DNA evidence. Eastern birds sometimes separated as subspecies saxicola.


References
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Files:
JPG files for Tibetan Ground-Jay (Pseudopodoces humilis) - 10 files


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