Passeriformes

Tits and Chickadees (Paridae)

HBW 12, p. 662

• Small to medium-sized, plump passerines with short to moderate-length strong bill, strong legs and feet, and short to medium-length tail; soft plumage varying greatly in colour, including yellows, greens, blues, browns, black, greys and white in patches, rather than as streaks or spots.
• Nearctic, Palearctic, Oriental and Afrotropical Regions.
• Most shrubby to wooded terrestrial habitats, from scrub to wooded savanna, carr, all types of woodland, and urban to rural parks and gardens.
• 9 genera, 56 species, 248 taxa.
• 1 species threatened; none extinct since 1600.