Aegithalos glaucogularis
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
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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Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Silver-throated Tit sighting in Qingdao on a given day, based on 35 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 18th most-seen of the 73 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 and February
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Silver-throated Tit in Qingdao on a given day, against about 10% in June and October, the lowest months. Those are among Qingdao's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 180 mm in July.
11th of 18
Of the 18 cities where we can rate Silver-throated Tit sightings, Qingdao ranks 11th at about 30%. The best odds are in Lanzhou (China, about 80%), Nanjing (China, about 50%) and Luoyang (China, about 40%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Silver-throated Tit that you can see in Qingdao (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Oriental Magpie (about 90%), Eurasian Tree Sparrow (about 90%) and Light-vented Bulbul (about 80%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Silver-throated Tit is recorded against all the birds logged in Qingdao (35 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.
