Himalayas from northern India (eastern Uttaranchal Pradesh) east to eastern Bhutan, and locally in adjacent areas of southern Xizang (southern China); also, disjunctly (on basis of present knowledge), in central China (south-western Shaanxi and southern Gansu south to Sichuan and north-western Yunnan) and eastern part of northern Myanmar.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Great Parrotbill (Conostoma aemodium) [XC67986]
by Frank Lambert from Wolong, near the Wo Yu Ping research station, China (song)
Great Parrotbill (Conostoma aemodium) [XC768633]
by Zhou Zhe \u5468\u54f2 from Wawu Shan (summit), Sichuan, China (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Original description included two different spellings of genus name (Conostoma, Conostama) and three of species name (aemodius, oemodius, omodius). Both elements of current name determined by ICZN Principle of First Reviser. Genus name has been claimed to be preoccupied by the name of an insect genus, with replacement name Enendrozdovoma proposed. However, several significant uncertainties surround this claim, and so long-established and almost universally used current name should be retained until satisfactorily proven otherwise.