White-shouldered Tit

White-shouldered Tit

Taxobox
name = White-shouldered Tit
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Paridae
genus = "Parus"
species = "P. guineensis "
binomial = "Parus guineensis "
binomial_authority = Shelley, 1900
The White-shouldered Tit "Parus guineensis" is a passerine bird in the tit family. It breeds in a belt across Africa from Senegal in the west to Kenya and Ethiopia in the east. It is sometimes considered conspecific with the more southerly White-winged Black Tit "Parus leucomelas".

Like that species, it is mainly black with a white wing patch, but differs in that it has a pale eye.

It is a resident in coniferous woodlands throughout its range, and nests in tree crevice. 4-6 reddish-brown blotched pinkish-white eggs are laid.

References

*Harrap and Quinn, "Tits, Nuthatches and Treecreepers" ISBN 0-7136-3964-4


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