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Photo by Akiko Hidaka
Izu Islands, Japan, May 2012

Sittiparus owstoni

Distribution

Endemic to Southern Izu Islands (Miyake-jima, Mikura-jima and Hachijo-jima), Japan.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
Formerly included in Varied Tit.
This species has been placed in various genera in the family Paridae. Formerly, like most other tits, it was placed in Parus, later in Sittiparus, Cyanistes or Poecile. All three worldlist now place it in the genus Sittiparus

Habitat

Its habitat consists of open mixed forests, in particular with the Japanese castanopsis species Castanopsis cuspidata, Japanese Larch Larix kaempferi, coniferous forests with Japanese Yew Taxus cuspidata, Sugi Cryptomeria japonica, and pines Pinus as well as bamboo forests at mountain slopes and in river valleys.

Behaviour

Eats a mixed diet consisting of seeds, nuts and insects, namely caterpillars.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.1). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.

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