Fire-capped tit
| Fire-capped tit | |
|---|---|
| Illustration of Cephalopyrus flammiceps, take from "The Birds of Asia", by John Gould | |
| Scientific 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) | |
The fire-capped tit (Cephalopyrus flammiceps) is a small, 10 cm (3.9 in) long, weighing about 7 g (0.25 oz) 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. Further to the east, birds tend to be smaller and the plumage becomes gradually darker.
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