Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus), photo 1 — Photo: Sagnik Dutta Roy · CC BY 4.0

Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus), photo 2 — Photo: Sagnik Dutta Roy · CC BY 4.0

Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus), photo 3 — Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0

Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus), photo 4 — Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0

What the Green-backed Tit sounds like

Sonogram of the Green-backed Tit: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Halyn Betchkal · Alarm call · Nainital (near Naina Range), Kumaon Division, Uttarakhand, India · CC0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Green-backed Tit

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Green-backed Tit

Regular range

The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

India Taiwan Bhutan China Nepal Vietnam Myanmar (Burma) Pakistan Laos

About the Green-backed Tit

The green-backed tit is a species of bird in the family Paridae.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Cinereous TitParus cinereusLike others in the genus, it has a broad black ventral line and has no crest.

Great TitParus majorThe great tit is large for a tit at 12.5 to 14 cm (4+7⁄8–5+1⁄2 in) in length, and has a distinctive appearance that makes it easy to recognise.

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