Silver-throated Tit

Silver-throated Tit

Aegithalos glaucogularis

LCLeast ConcernNTVUENCR
Daily sighting probability ~40% · Likely
at Jinan

In 3 days ~70% in a week >90%

30 Verified sightings at Jinan
November Best month

About the Silver-throated Tit

The silver-throated bushtit or silver-throated tit (Aegithalos glaucogularis) is a species of passerine bird in the family Aegithalidae, widespread throughout the temperate forests of Central, East and parts of North and Western China. The bird's native habitats are mainly along the middle/lower Yangtze and Yellow River basins, although there is also a small southwestern habitat extension in Yunnan along the Lancang valley within the Hengduan Mountains. It has two recognized subspecies.

A paper on the silver-throated bushtit by the English naturalist Frederic Moore was read at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London on 27 June 1854. The English ornithologist John Gould then included the silver-throated bushtit in his book The Birds of Asia and cited Moore's paper. Gould used Moore's specific name but a different genus to obtain the binomial name Mecistura glaucogularis. He specified the type locality as Shanghai. As Gould's work appeared in print in 1855 before the publication of the proceedings of the Zoological Society, under the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Gould's publication has priority. The name glaucogularis combines the... Wikipedia →

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Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability

More parks will be added in future updates.

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Lanzhou 🇨🇳 China
~80%
2 Nanjing 🇨🇳 China
~50%
3 Luoyang 🇨🇳 China
~40%
4 Beijing 🇨🇳 China
~40%
5 Jinhua 🇨🇳 China
~40%
6 Jinan 🇨🇳 China
~40%
7 Xining 🇨🇳 China
~30%
8 Hefei 🇨🇳 China
~30%
9 Shijiazhuang 🇨🇳 China
~30%
10 Zhengzhou 🇨🇳 China
~30%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Silver-throated Tit in Jinan?

Likely

About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Silver-throated Tit sighting in Jinan on a given day, based on 30 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 14th most-seen of the 69 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Silver-throated Tit in Jinan?

November

In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Silver-throated Tit in Jinan on a given day, against about 20% in August, the lowest month. That is one of Jinan's driest months, with about 30 mm of rain against 190 mm in July. April has too few records to rate.

Is Jinan the best place to see a Silver-throated Tit?

6th of 18

Of the 18 cities where we can rate Silver-throated Tit sightings, Jinan ranks 6th at about 40%. The best odds are in Lanzhou (China, about 80%), Nanjing (China, about 50%) and Luoyang (China, about 40%).

Which relatives of the Silver-throated Tit live in Jinan?

Same order: Passeriformes

The closest relatives of the Silver-throated Tit that you can see in Jinan (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Eurasian Tree Sparrow (about 80%), Azure-winged Magpie (about 80%) and Oriental Magpie (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.

Where does the Silver-throated Tit sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Silver-throated Tit is recorded against all the birds logged in Jinan (30 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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