Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus)

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) [XC115020]
by Mike Nelson from Forest below Takstang Monastery, Paro, Bhutan (call)

Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus) [XC547763]
by Bo Shunqi \u8584\u987a\u5947 from Cloud's End, Uttarakhand, India (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
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Files:

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