| Rufous-vented Tit | |
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| Nominate subspecies at Kullu, Himachal Pradesh (India) |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Paridae |
| Genus: | Periparus |
| Species: | P. rubidiventris |
| Binomial name | |
| Periparus rubidiventris (Blyth, 1847) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Parus rubidiventris Blyth, 1847 |
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The Rufous-vented Tit (Periparus rubidiventris) is an Asian songbird species in the tit and chickadee family (Paridae). Some of its subspecies were formerly assigned to its western relative the Rufous-naped Tit (P. rufonuchalis), or these two were considered entirely conspecific. It was formerly placed in the genus Parus.[1]
The 4 subspecies are:
This tit is a native of the western Himalayas, but has a very large range, occurring in parts of Bhutan, China, Pakistan, India, Myanmar and Nepal. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and temperate forests. In Bhutan for example, P. r. beavani is a rather common all-year resident in moist Bhutan Fir (Abies densa) forests, between approximately 3,000 and 4,000 meters ASL. Widespread and by no means rare, it is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.[3]
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