Tits and Chickadees (Paridae)
Ashy Tit (Parus cinerascens) - HBW 12, p. 736
French: Mésange cendrée
German: Akazienmeise
Spanish: Carbonero Cinéreo
Taxonomy: Parus cinerascens Vieillot, 1818, Pelladrift, northern Cape Province, South Africa.
Forms a superspecies with P. thruppi, P. griseiventris and P. afer. Has been considered conspecific with any one of those or with all of them. Birds from SE Zimbabwe and N South Africa (E Limpopo S to Free State), previously separated as race orphnus on basis of purer white face and nuchal patch and greyer upperparts, now considered doubtfully distinct from fresh-plumage nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- benguelae B. P. Hall & Traylor, 1959 - SW Angola, possibly also extreme NW Namibia.
- cinerascens Vieillot, 1818 - Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and N South Africa (S to N Northern Cape, Free State and Mpumalanga).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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bird shortly perched Locality Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Ghanzi District, Botswana
Volkert van der Willigen 5 February 2005 3 years ago 4 sec 2.3
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An adult.
Locality Windhoek, Khomas Region, Namibia (ssp cinerascens)
Ken Havard 5 April 2013 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.7 -
A bird singing from the top of a dead tree
Locality Ghanzi District, Botswana
Aleix Comas 7 September 2007 3 years ago 3.5 -
Foraging in the trees
Locality Daan Viljoen Game Park, Khomas Region, Namibia
Lindsay Hansch 24 September 2007 2 years ago 3 -
An adult perched on a wall.
Locality Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Kalahari Gemsbok NP), Northern Cape Province, South Africa (ssp cinerascens)
Carmelo López 5 December 2010 2 years ago 3
- No sound recordings available yet
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