Sombre Tit (Poecile lugubris)
About the Sombre Tit
The sombre tit (Poecile lugubris) is a species of passerine bird belonging to the family Paridae, the "true" tits and chickadees. This species is found in southeast Europe and southwest Asia. The sombre tit was first formally described as Parus lugubris in 1820 by the Dutch zoologist Temminck with its type locality given as "Dalmatia and Hungary". This species is now classified in the genus Poecile rather than Parus. Molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that the sombre tit is sister to the white-browed tit (Poecile superciliosus).
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 47 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. 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.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Croatia, Greece, Israel, Romania in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillusrecording
- Boreal ChickadeePoecile hudsonicusrecording
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensisrecording
- Chestnut-backed ChickadeePoecile rufescensrecording
- Marsh TitPoecile palustrisrecording
- Mexican ChickadeePoecile sclaterirecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.