Rufous-bellied Tit (Melaniparus rufiventris)
About the Rufous-bellied Tit
The rufous-bellied tit (Melaniparus rufiventris) is a species of bird in the tit family. It is found in Africa from the Republic of the Congo, DR Congo and northern Namibia east to Tanzania and northern Mozambique. The rufous-bellied tit was formally described in 1877 by the Portuguese zoologist José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage based on a specimen collected near the town of Caconda in central Angola. He placed it with the tits in the genus Parus and coined the binomial name Parus rufiventris. The specific epithet is Modern Latin meaning "red-bellied", from Latin rufus meaning "ruddy" or "rufous" and venter, ventris meaning "belly". The rufous-bellied tit is now one of 14 tits placed in the genus Melaniparus that was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 22 recordings for this species: 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 Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, 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.