Parus cinereus
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The cinereous tit or Asian tit (Parus cinereus) is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae. This species is made up of several populations that were earlier treated as subspecies of the great tit (Parus major). These birds are grey backed with white undersides. The great tit in the new sense is distinguishable by the greenish-back and yellowish underside. The distribution of this species extends from parts of West Asia across South Asia and into Southeast Asia. The Japanese tit was formerly treated as a separate species but is now grouped together with the cinereous tit.
The cinereous tit was formally described in 1818 by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot under the binomial name Parus cinereus. He specified the type location as Batavia, now Jakarta, on the Indonesian island of Java. The cinereous tit was formerly considered as conspecific with the great tit (Parus major).
Twenty subspecies are recognised: P... Wikipedia →
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ueno Zoological Gardens (West Garden) | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 2 | Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 3 | Edward Youde Aviary | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR China |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Cinereous Tit sighting in Lucknow on a given day, based on 236 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 37th most-seen of the 200 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.
January to March
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Cinereous Tit in Lucknow on a given day, against under 5% in August, the lowest month. Those are among Lucknow's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 320 mm in July.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cinereous Tit sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
53rd of 89
Of the 89 cities where we can rate Cinereous Tit sightings, Lucknow ranks 53rd at about 20%. The best odds are in Sapporo (Japan, about 90%), Seoul (South Korea, about 90%) and Sendai (Japan, about 80%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Cinereous Tit that you can see in Lucknow (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Red-whiskered Bulbul (about 80%), House Crow (about 80%) and Purple Sunbird (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cinereous Tit is recorded against all the birds logged in Lucknow (236 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.
