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 LC    Crested Tit-Warbler* Id (Atlas):
    Leptopoecile elegans

Description (10)
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Family
Aegithalidae (Long-tailed Tits)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
Przewalski, 1887

Habitat
Temperate forest and shrubland. From 2,800 - 4,300 m.

Range (Guide)
China (mainland) (B).

Unknown to India (B).

Central and eastern Qinghai, southern Nei Mongol (Alashan and Helan Shan), Ningxia (Helan Shan) and southern Gansu (southern Qilian Shan) south to south-eastern Xizang and western and C Sichuan, in central China.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
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Crested Tit-warbler (Leptopoecile elegans) [XC150122]
     by Ding Li Yong from Bei Zha Forest Reserve, Qinghai, China (call)

 
Crested Tit-warbler (Leptopoecile elegans) [XC110780]
     by Yong Ding Li from Ganggongling Pass, Jiuzhaigou-Songpan highway, Sichuan, China (call)

Subspecies
Birds from Malashi country, south of Litang (south-eastern Xizang-western Sichuan), described as subspecies meissneri, but probably inseparable from those elsewhere in species' range.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • meissneri Shäfer, 1937   -  South-eastern Tibet.
  • elegans Przewalski, 1887   -  Coniferous forests of north-central China to Tibet and Sichuan.



References
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