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Rufous-bellied Tit

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Parus rufiventris

Includes Cinnamon-breasted Tit

Photo by safariranger  Photo taken: Mutinondo Wilderness, Zambia
Photo by safariranger
Photo taken: Mutinondo Wilderness, Zambia

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[edit] Identification

15 cm. Black head, breast, wings and tail, grey upperparts, white fringes to the wing feathers, and rufous underparts. The adult has a yellow eye, brown in the duller juvenile.

[edit] Distribution

Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Namibia east to Tanzania and northern Mozambique.

[edit] Taxonomy

Three subspecies recognized:

  • P. r. rufiventris
  • P. r. masukuensis
  • P. r. pallidiventris

Pallidiventris is sometimes split as Cinnamon-breasted Tit.
Placed in Melaniparus by some authors.

[edit] Habitat

Dry miombo forests.

[edit] Behaviour

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