Tits and Chickadees (Paridae) - HBW 12
Varied Tit (Poecile varius)
French: Mésange variée
German: Buntmeise
Spanish: Carbonero Variado
Taxonomy: Parus varius Temminck and Schlegel, 1848, Honshu, Japan.
Until recently present genus normally subsumed into a broad Parus, and many authors still prefer that treatment. Genus normally treated as feminine, but no evidence in original description or elsewhere justifies this, so genus is masculine by default. Has hybridized with P. montanus. Geographical variation largely clinal, grading progressively smaller and darker from N to S. Birds from Yakushima (off S Japan) described as race yakushimensis, supposedly slightly darker on forecrown and side of head than those on neighbouring Tanegashima, but differences considered insuffic.. View all taxonomy...
Until recently present genus normally subsumed into a broad Parus, and many authors still prefer that treatment. Genus normally treated as feminine, but no evidence in original description or elsewhere justifies this, so genus is masculine by default. Has hybridized with P. montanus. Geographical variation largely clinal, grading progressively smaller and darker from N to S. Birds from Yakushima (off S Japan) described as race yakushimensis, supposedly slightly darker on forecrown and side of head than those on neighbouring Tanegashima, but differences considered insufficient to warrant separation from sunsunpi. Eight subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- varius ( Temminck & Schlegel, 1848) - S Kuril Is, Japan, NE China (SE Liaoning, S Jilin) and Korea.
- sunsunpi ( Nagamichi Kuroda, 1919) - Osumi-shoto (Tanegashima, Yakushima), off S Japan.
- namiyei ( Nagamichi Kuroda, 1918) - N Izu Is (Toshima, Niijima, Kozushima).
- varius ( Temminck & Schlegel, 1848) - S Kuril Is, Japan, NE China (SE Liaoning, S Jilin) and Korea.
- sunsunpi ( Nagamichi Kuroda, 1919) - Osumi-shoto (Tanegashima, Yakushima), off S Japan.
- namiyei ( Nagamichi Kuroda, 1918) - N Izu Is (Toshima, Niijima, Kozushima).
- owstoni ( Ijima, 1893) - S Izu Is.
- amamii ( Nagamichi Kuroda, 1922) - NC Ryukyu Is (Amami-oshima S to Okinawa).
- olivaceus ( Nagamichi Kuroda, 1923) - Iriomote, in S Ryukyus.
- castaneoventris ( Gould, 1863) - Taiwan.
- orii ( Nagamichi Kuroda, 1923) - Daito-jima (Borodino Is).
- Least Concern
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Bird on branch examining human. Rokko Mountain Range, Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
Charles McHugh 14 September 2009 25 weeks ago 25 sec 4.2 -
Bird on branch eating worm Rokko Mountain Range, Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
Charles McHugh 11 May 2009 43 weeks ago 28 sec 4 -
A bird perched and looking around Khanguan Island, South Korea (ssp varius)
John Gregory 30 November 1999 2 years ago 14 sec 3.8 -
Bird extracting and eating insects from pine cones. Rokko Mountain Range, Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp varius)
Charles McHugh 13 December 2008 1 year ago 9 sec 3.3 -
several views of an adult(s) in scrub, including a brief spell of preening Hueisun Forest Reserve, Nantou County, Taiwan (ssp castaneoventris)
Martin Kennewell 20 July 2009 25 weeks ago 53 sec 3
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A bird eating a fruit on a branch Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
Aleix Comas 31 December 2009 7 weeks ago 3.7 -
Taken at Wulai, Taipei County. Taiwan
alder 14 February 2009 1 year ago 3.5 -
A Varied Tit on the storax Ishikawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
Mitsuru Akimoto 21 October 2009 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3 -
A bird searching lichen for insects. Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp varius)
kawasemi 26 March 2009 35 weeks ago 3
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adult with juveniles Iriomotejima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Desmond Allen 1 February 2002 2 hours ago ADDED TODAY! 3
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