Description:

Large, black-headed tit with large white face patch, and pale underparts divided by black ventral line. Black breast centre and line down belly, greyish mantle, greyish-white breast sides and flanks, and white wing-bar. Juvenile has yellowish-white cheeks and underparts, and yellowish-olive wash to mantle.

Distribution:

Common resident in relatively lower valleys all across Gilgit-Baltistan. Mostly open deciduous, conifer and mixed forest edges and clearings; also more widely in plantations, orchards, gardens and edges of cultivation; up to 3400m.

Behavior:

Forages at all levels in trees, where it gleans among foliage, branches and trunks, also in shrubs and tall undergrowth. Also on ground, especially male in non-breeding season, where collects fallen seeds, berries and invertebrates. Food in summer mostly small invertebrates and larvae; at other seasons also seeds and various other items.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Cinereous Tit in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Cinereous Tit

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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