Asian Tit
Parus cinereus
Also known as: Cinereous Tit · Southern Great Tit · Japanese Tit · Eastern Great Tit · Oriental Tit · Cinerous Tit
Aves
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 2-4 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Pair
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- South Asia
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Flight
- Status
- Common
About
The Asian Tit is a small grey-backed, white-bellied songbird found across South and Southeast Asia, closely related to the great tit but distinguished by its lighter plumage. It forages actively through foliage, often hanging upside down to pluck insects from the undersides of leaves.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage and song.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Paridae
- Genus
- Parus
- Species
- Parus cinereus