Fire-capped Tit

Cephalopyrus flammiceps (Burton, E, 1836)

Fire-capped Tit, Cephalopyrus flammiceps, is a passerine of the Paridae that breeds across the Himalayas to northern Laos and moves to central India outside the breeding season. It is a forest bird of temperate woodland, mixed deciduous stands and areas with scattered trees, and it also uses higher-altitude shrubs in Kashmir and Ladakh. In China it has been recorded in spruce, fir and rhododendron, while in Thailand it occurs in deciduous hillside forest. It is notable for nesting in tree hollows, often in natural cavities or old woodpecker holes, and for laying blue-green eggs.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Paridae — Tits, Chickadees

Breeding range

Oriental Region: Himalayas to n Laos

Nonbreeding range

c India