White-winged Black Tit (Melaniparus leucomelas)
About the White-winged Black Tit
The white-winged black tit (Melaniparus leucomelas) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is also known as the white-winged tit, dark-eyed black tit or northern black tit. The species was first described by Eduard Rüppell in 1840. It is mainly black with a white wing patch, but differs from the more northern white-shouldered tit (Melaniparus guineensis) with which it sometimes considered conspecific in that it has a dark eye. It is found in central Africa, from Angola in the west to Ethiopia in the east. There are two races: M. l. leucomelas Rüppell, 1840 – Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan M. l. insignis Cabanis, 1880 – African equator to southern subtropics.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 18 recordings for this species: 6 CC BY-NC-SA · 3 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Red-throated TitMelaniparus fringillinusrecording
- White-bellied TitMelaniparus albiventrisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.