Rufous-naped Tit

Rufous-naped Tit
Rufous-naped Tit
At Kullu (Himachal Pradesh India)
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paridae
Genus: Periparus
Species: P. rufonuchalis
Binomial name
Periparus rufonuchalis
(Blyth, 1849)
Synonyms

Parus rufonuchalis Blyth, 1849

The Rufous-naped Tit (Periparus rufonuchalis), also known as the Black-breasted Tit or Dark-grey Tit, is an Asian songbird species in the tit and chickadee family (Paridae). It was sometimes considered conspecific with the Rufous-vented Tit (P. rubidiventris), and was formerly placed in the genus Parus.[1]

This tit is a native of the western Himalayas, but has a very large range, occurring in parts of India, China, Pakistan, Turkestan, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan. Widespread and common, it is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Gill et al. (2005)
  2. ^ BLI (2008)

References

  • BirdLife International (BLI) (2008). Parus rufonuchalis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 12 May 2009.
  • Gill, Frank B.; Slikas, Beth & Sheldon, Frederick H. (2005): Phylogeny of titmice (Paridae): II. Species relationships based on sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene. Auk 122(1): 121-143. DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0121:POTPIS]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract

External links

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