Fire-capped tit

Fire-capped tit
Illustration of Cephalopyrus flammiceps, take from "The Birds of Asia", by John Gould
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paridae
Genus: Cephalopyrus
Bonaparte, 1854
Species:
C. flammiceps
Binomial name
Cephalopyrus flammiceps
(Burton, 1836) [2]

The fire-capped tit (Cephalopyrus flammiceps) is a small, 10 cm (3.9 in) long, weighing about 7 g (0.25 oz)[3] bird species assigned to the family Paridae, that breeds in the temperate forest bordering the Himalayas to the south, in the Hengduan Shan and Nujiang Shan on the Myanmar-China border, the Micah Shan and Daba Shan on the Northern Sichuan border. It winters down hill and further south.[4] Further to the east, birds tend to be smaller[3] and the plumage becomes gradually darker.[5]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Cephalopyrus flammiceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22711685A94306357. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22711685A94306357.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Taxon author: Burton, 1836". ITIS. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b Oiseaux.net. "Rémiz tête-de-feu". Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  4. ^ xeno-canto. "Fire-capped Tit". Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference IBC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).