White-shouldered Black Tit

When to see the White-shouldered Black Tit

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the White-shouldered Black Tit

The map shades 19 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Congo - Brazzaville, Gabon.

About the White-shouldered Black Tit

The white-shouldered black tit, also known as the pale-eyed black tit, is a passerine bird in the tit family. It breeds in a belt across Africa from Senegal in the west to Kenya and Ethiopia in the east. It is sometimes considered conspecific with the more southerly white-winged black tit Melaniparus leucomelas and, like that species, it is mainly black with a white wing patch, but differs in that it has a pale eye.

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Easily confused with

Carp's TitMelaniparus carpiCarp's tit or Carp's black tit, is a species of bird in the family Paridae. Acacia TitMelaniparus thruppiThe smallest of the grey Melaniparus tits of Africa, the acacia tit has a glossy blue-black cap, nape, throat and breast contrasting with a large buffy white patch which extends from the bill to the sides of the neck. Red-throated TitMelaniparus fringillinusThe red-throated tit is a species of bird in the family Paridae.