Japanese Tit (Parus minor)
About the Japanese Tit
The cinereous tit or Asian tit (Parus cinereus) is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae. This species is made up of several populations that were earlier treated as subspecies of the great tit (Parus major). These birds are grey backed with white undersides. The great tit in the new sense is distinguishable by the greenish-back and yellowish underside. The distribution of this species extends from parts of West Asia across South Asia and into Southeast Asia. The Japanese tit was formerly treated as a separate species but is now grouped together with the cinereous tit.
A real field recording of the Japanese Tit. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in China, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 482 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Cinereous TitParus cinereusrecording
- Great TitParus majorrecording
- Green-backed TitParus monticolusrecording
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.