Red-breasted tit
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The red-breasted tit ( Periparus rubidiventris ; from Latin rubidus 'brown red' and venter 'belly') is a songbird species from the tit family (Paridae).
description
The species has a black head with a black hood, from which white stripes stand out on the cheek and the back of the hood. The top is gray and the bottom is gray-brown in color.
distribution
The red-breasted tit colonizes a large area in Bhutan , China , India , Myanmar and Nepal , where it lives in four subspecies, namely P. r. rubidiventris ( Blyth , 1847) (from northwest to northeast India and northern Nepal), P. r. beavani ( Jerdon , 1863) (Northeast India and Bhutan), P. r. whistleri ( Stresemann , 1931) (Southwest China, Northeast Myanmar and Northeast India) and P. r. saramatii ( Ripley , 1961) (only local in northwest Myanmar ). It lives in forests and feeds on insects and seeds.
literature
- Edward Blyth: Notices and Descriptions of various New or Little Known Species of Birds . In: The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal . tape 16 , no. 185 , 1847, pp. 428-476 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- Erwin Stresemann: New Forms from North Kansu, VII . In: Ornithological monthly reports . tape 39 , no. 4 , 1931, p. 105-108 ( books.google.de ).
- Sidney Dillon Ripley: Some bird records from nothern Burma with a description of a new subspecies . In: Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . tape 58 , no. 1 , 1961, pp. 279-283 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- Thomas Caverhill Jerdon: The birds of India: being a natural history of all the birds known to inhabit continental India, with descriptions of the species, genera, families, tribes, and orders, and a brief notice of such families as are not found in India, making it a manual of ornithology specially adapted for India . Printed for the Author by the Military Orphan Press, Calcutta 1863 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
Web links
- Periparus rubidiventris inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017.3. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
- BirdLife International: Species Factsheet - Rufous-vented Tit ( Periparus rubidiventris ) . Retrieved January 25, 2018.
- Videos, photos and sound recordings of Rufous-vented Tit (Periparus rubidiventris) in the Internet Bird Collection
- Red-breasted tit ( Periparus rubidiventris ) at Avibase; accessed on January 25, 2018.
- Periparus rubidiventris in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
- xeno-canto: Sound recordings - Rufous-vented Tit ( Periparus rubidiventris )
- Rufous-vented tit (Periparus rubidiventris) in the Encyclopedia of Life . Retrieved January 25, 2018.
- Photos of the kind