Great Great Tit
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The Mountain Great Tit ( Parus monticolus ) is a 13-centimeter bird art from the family of tits . The species is widespread in many areas of Eurasia tit very similar, but lives in contrast to this only in the Himalayan region and in far eastern mountain regions.
Appearance
The coal tit looks confusingly similar to the great tit, which is common and widespread in Europe. A major difference is that it does not have blue and white wings, but rather black and blue or black and white wings. The head is black except for two large white spots in the area under the eye. In front of the throat, a wide, black stripe runs down the center of the chest and stomach and backwards. The sides of the abdomen are yellow, the back is greenish in color, and the legs are black. The tail is blue-black above and white below, the beak is gray.
distribution and habitat
The coal tit is found in the states of Bhutan , India , Laos , Myanmar , Nepal , Pakistan , Taiwan , Vietnam and the People's Republic of China . There it inhabits the mountain forests of the Himalayas and other mountain ranges up to an altitude of 2,000 to 3,500 meters in summer . It is also represented in human gardens and parks. They spend the winter in lower regions.
Way of life
They roam the landscape in small groups, usually accompanied by other bird species, in search of food. Their diet includes termites and other insect larvae.
Reproduction
During the breeding season in spring, the female of the great great tit builds its trough-shaped nest, which consists of moss and lichen pieces, in hollow tree trunks or between crevices. The female lays 5–8 white eggs with red-brown spots. These are deposited one after the other by the females. The female takes on the hatching alone; the male only supports it with feeding. After 18 days, the young leave the nest for the first time, but the two adult birds will continue to feed them for at least 10 more days. Then they roam the area with the two parent animals in search of food.
Systematics
The sister group of the mountain cabbage tit is the superspecies formed from the great tit ( Parus major ) and its former subspecies Parus minor and Parus cinereus .
There are currently four subspecies of the great great titmouse:
- P. m. monticolus Vigors , 1831 - nominate form , north Pakistan to west Nepal and south Tibet
- P. m. yunnanensis La Touche , 1922 - Eastern Himalayas and Northeast India to Central China, Northern Indochina and Myanmar
- P. m. legendary Delacour , 1927 - South-Central Vietnam
- P. m. insperatus Swinhoe , 1866 - Taiwan
Danger
Because of its wide distribution and that no endangerments are known for this species, the IUCN classifies this species as Least Concern .
literature
- Jiří Felix (eds.), Květoslav Hísek: Asian fauna in color. Translated from the Czech by Ingeborg Šestáková. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1989, pp. 137-138.
Web links
- Parus monticolus inthe IUCN 2016 Red List of Threatened Species . Listed by: BirdLife International, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ^ S. Eck, Jochen Martens: Systematic notes on Asian birds. 49. A preliminary review of the Aegithalidae, Remizidae and Paridae . In: Zool. Med. Suffering . tape 80 , 2006 ( zoologischemededelingen.nl [PDF]). Systematic notes on Asian birds. 49. A preliminary review of the Aegithalidae, Remizidae and Paridae ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A. Gosler, P. Clement: Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus) . In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, DA Christie & E. de Juana, E. (Eds.): Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2018 ( hbw.com [accessed November 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Frank Gill, David Donsker: IOC World Bird List v 8.2 : Waxwings and allies, tits, penduline tits .
