Black-crested tit

Black-crested tit
	In Binser - Almora District of Uttrakhand, India
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Paridae
Genus:	Periparus
Species:	P. ater
Subspecies:	P. a. melanolophus
Trinomial name
	Periparus ater melanolophus; Vigors, 1831
Synonyms
	Periparus melanolophus;

The black-crested tit (Periparus ater melanolophus), also known as the spot-winged tit, is a bird in the family Paridae.^[1] It was formerly considered a species, but is now widely considered a subspecies of the coal tit.^[2]

^ Löhrl, Hans; Thielcke, Gerhard (1 April 1973). "Alarmlaute europäischer und nordafrikanischer Tannenmeisen(Parus ater ater, P. ater atlas, P. ater ledouci) und der Schwarzschopfmeise(P. melanolophus)". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 114 (2): 250–252. doi:10.1007/BF01641174. ISSN 1439-0361.
^ Wolfgramm, Hannes; Martens, Jochen; Töpfer, Till; Vamberger, Melita; Pathak, Abhinaya; Stuckas, Heiko; Päckert, Martin (December 2021). "Asymmetric allelic introgression across a hybrid zone of the coal tit ( Periparus ater ) in the central Himalayas*". Ecology and Evolution. 11 (23): 17332–17351. Bibcode:2021EcoEv..1117332W. doi:10.1002/ece3.8369. ISSN 2045-7758. PMC 8668783. PMID 34938512.

[1] Löhrl, Hans; Thielcke, Gerhard (1 April 1973). "Alarmlaute europäischer und nordafrikanischer Tannenmeisen(Parus ater ater, P. ater atlas, P. ater ledouci) und der Schwarzschopfmeise(P. melanolophus)". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 114 (2): 250–252. doi:10.1007/BF01641174. ISSN 1439-0361.

[2] Wolfgramm, Hannes; Martens, Jochen; Töpfer, Till; Vamberger, Melita; Pathak, Abhinaya; Stuckas, Heiko; Päckert, Martin (December 2021). "Asymmetric allelic introgression across a hybrid zone of the coal tit ( Periparus ater ) in the central Himalayas*". Ecology and Evolution. 11 (23): 17332–17351. Bibcode:2021EcoEv..1117332W. doi:10.1002/ece3.8369. ISSN 2045-7758. PMC 8668783. PMID 34938512.

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