GREAT TIT

Photographed March 2017

(*  917)              GREAT TIT             Parus major

SRI LANKA               76

Found in forests, wooded areas and gardens. 14 cm. Uncommon breeding resident in lowlands and up to lower hills, more common towards higher hills.

GREAT TIT

Photographed at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal March 2017

(* 309)                GREAT TIT                       Parus major

NEPAL                52

Forages in middle and especially lower level of forests and well-wooded country. 14 cm. Common, widespread resident.

NOTE: Nepal taxon, Cinereous Tit P. cinereus, often treated as seperate species but not enough information known yet.

Photographed at Chitwen, Nepal March 2017

GREAT TIT

Photographed in north-west Bali October 2016 

(see   309, Britain 9)              GREAT TIT            Parus major  

INDONESIA (Bali)         (59)        

In Kalimantan restricted to coastal mangroves; rest of Indonesia open woodlands and along forest edges inland. 13 cm. Distribution: Eurasia and the Orient region: widespread and common resident on Sumatra, Java and Bali; locally common in south Kalimantan and parts of Nusa Tenggara.

CRESTED SHRIKE-TIT

Photographed at Eubalong West, NSW, December 2014

444          CRESTED SHRIKE-TIT          Falcunculus frontatus

Australia              (302)

Found in rainforests, eucalyptus forests/woodlands; in inland se Australia river red gums on watercourses, especially saplings or young trees; also acacia, coastal tea tree, banksia or cypress pines, golf courses and gardens. Range sw WA, Top End, around Rockhampton area, a pocket near Adelaide and down east coast and inland from Tropic to SA border. At present there are three sub-species.

SOUTHERN BLACK TIT

385          SOUTHERN BLACK TIT              Parus niger

South Africa           (78)

Also known simply as Black Tit. Range in semi-circular arc from Angola to Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. Found mainly in tropical and sub-tropical savanna woodlands, prefers woodlands dominated by broad-leafed trees. 16 cm.

GREAT TIT

309            GREAT TIT        Parus major

Britain         (9)

Widespread and common in Europe, Middle East, Central and Northern Asia and parts of North Africa with woods. 12.5-14 cm. Very vocal and has up to 40 calls. Found in open deciduous woodlands, mixed forests, dense forests. Does not migrate except extreme winters. Monogamous, establishes a territory which it keeps. Lays 12 eggs in a batch, usually raises two broods a season.

BUFF-RUMPED THORNBILL

294          BUFF-RUMPED THORNBILL           Acanthiza reguloides

Australia             (264)

Also known as Bark or Buff-rumped Tit, or Varied Thornbill. Range s. and se. mainland, from Atherton in the n., through most of NSW except nw, all of Vict., and across to Adelaide. Found in open stringy bark forest, woodland, scrub and golf courses. 11 cm.