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Green-backed Tit

Parus monticolus · Family Paridae

Parus monticolus

Family Paridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Paridae
GBIF occurrence records
142,327
Countries and territories with records
12
Green-backed Tit
Koshy Koshy from Faridabad, Haryana, India · Green-backed Tit (38039191995).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Koshy Koshy from Faridabad, Haryana, India · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 142,327 occurrence records from 12 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (40.5%), Taiwan (38.8%), China (6.9%), Bhutan (6.7%) and Nepal (4.6%); together they account for 97.6% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.094% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Parus monticolus combines the genus name Parus with the species epithet monticolus. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Parus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Parus major and Parus cinereus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 61 species of the family Paridae. This species ranks 18th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Poecile atricapillus. Its record count is 10.9% of the family average (1,310,770). The family Paridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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