Chestnut-bellied Tit

Chestnut-bellied Tit

Poecile varius

LCLeast ConcernNTVUENCR
Daily sighting probability ~30% · Possible
at Daejeon

In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%

28 Verified sightings at Daejeon
364 In all 2 parks From 2019 to 2026
October Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Chestnut-bellied Tit

The chestnut-bellied tit (Sittiparus castaneoventris) is a small passerine bird in the tit family Paridae that is endemic to Taiwan. The chestnut-bellied tit was first described by the English ornithologist John Gould in 1863 and given the binomial name Parus castaneoventris. It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the varied tit but was promoted to species status after the publication of a phylogenetic study in 2014.

The species differs from the varied tit in having underparts of a deep chestnut colour. PARUS (Taiwanese satellite family) Birding In Taiwan: Endemic subspecies of Taiwan birds - first impressions Wikipedia →

Sounds

Call0:45

Taiwan · 2020

© Phil Gregory · XC621455 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Song1:11

Taiwan · 2014

© Frank Lambert · XC187697 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Uncertain0:34

Taiwan · 2021

© Chaohung Lai · XC643652 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Nikko National Park 🇯🇵 Japan
~30%
2 Taroko National Park 🇹🇼 Taiwan
~10%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Sapporo 🇯🇵 Japan
~80%
2 Gwangju 🇰🇷 South Korea
~50%
3 Sendai 🇯🇵 Japan
~50%
4 Seoul 🇰🇷 South Korea
~40%
5 Busan 🇰🇷 South Korea
~30%
6 Fukuoka 🇯🇵 Japan
~30%
7 Daejeon 🇰🇷 South Korea
~30%
8 Osaka 🇯🇵 Japan
~20%
9 Hiroshima 🇯🇵 Japan
~20%
10 Nagoya 🇯🇵 Japan
~10%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Chestnut-bellied Tit in Daejeon?

Possible

About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Chestnut-bellied Tit sighting in Daejeon on a given day, based on 28 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 25th most-seen of the 69 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Chestnut-bellied Tit in Daejeon?

October

In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Chestnut-bellied Tit in Daejeon on a given day, against about 10% in July and August, the lowest months. That is one of Daejeon's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain against 320 mm in July.

What time of day is best to see a Chestnut-bellied Tit?

Between 6 and 9 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Chestnut-bellied Tit sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Is Daejeon the best place to see a Chestnut-bellied Tit?

7th of 14

Of the 14 cities where we can rate Chestnut-bellied Tit sightings, Daejeon ranks 7th at about 30%. The best odds are in Sapporo (Japan, about 80%), Gwangju (South Korea, about 50%) and Sendai (Japan, about 50%).

Where does the Chestnut-bellied Tit sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Chestnut-bellied Tit is recorded against all the birds logged in Daejeon (28 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.

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