Tits and Chickadees (Paridae)
Ground Tit (Pseudopodoces humilis) - HBW 12, p. 746
French: Mésange de Hume
German: Tibetmeise
Spanish: Carbonero Terrestre
Other common names: Groundpecker, Hume’s Groundpecker/Ground Chough/Ground Jay, Brown Ground Chough, Tibetan Ground Jay
Taxonomy: Podoces humilis Hume, 1871, Sanju Pass, Xinjiang, north-west China.
Until recently placed with the crows in family Corvidae, often in the ground-jay genus Podoces; osteological, morphological and vocal characters, however, indicate that it belongs in present family, a treatment supported by mitochondrial DNA evidence. E birds sometimes separated as race saxicola. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW & C China (SW Xinjiang and S & E Qinghai-Xizang Plateau E to Ningxia and Gansu, S to S & SE Xizang, NE Yunnan and W Sichuan), also SE Ladakh, N Nepal and Sikkim.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird displaying at dusk over a wall Locality Heimahe, Qinghai, China (Northern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 26 July 2002 6 years ago 9 sec 4.6 -
A pair of adults with food in their beaks, approaching its nest, one of them entering and leaving it Locality Zoige (Ruoergai) County, Sichuan, China (Northern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 15 May 2002 7 years ago 42 sec 4.3 -
A pair feeding on the ground Locality Waqie, Hongyuan County, Sichuan, China (Northern) (Monotypic species)
Josh Engel 6 March 2008 4 years ago 58 sec 4.2 -
A bird on the ground, preening, shaking the plumage and scratching the head Locality Heimahe, Qinghai, China (Northern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 26 July 2002 6 years ago 27 sec 4.2 -
A bird walking on the grass and feeding Locality Gonghe, Qinghai, China (Northern) (Monotypic species)
John Gregory 28 July 2002 5 years ago 32 sec 4.2 -
An active nest and its surroundings Locality Zoige (Ruoergai) County, Sichuan, China (Northern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 15 May 2002 7 years ago 24 sec 3.9
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A bird standing on the grass
Locality China (Northern)
Nathanael Goldman 5 July 2012 44 weeks ago 4.3 -
A bird on the ground.
Locality Zoige (Ruoergai) County, Sichuan, China (Northern) (Monotypic species)
John and Jemi Holmes 33 weeks ago 4.3 -
A bird in the snow, feeding.
Locality Hongyuan County, Sichuan, China (Northern) (Monotypic species)
Nick Athanas 13 May 2006 4 years ago 4.1 -
Individual in a small foraging group. Picture taken in late September 1987
Locality Huo'erbaxiang, Tibetan Plateau, China (Northern)
Philipp Heeb 3 years ago 1.7
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