White-naped Tit
Machlolophus nuchalis(Jerdon, TC, 1845)
English (US) White-naped Tit
The White-naped Tit (Machlolophus nuchalis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Paridae (Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: patchily distributed semiarid thorn forest of western and southern IndiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Machlolophus nuchalis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- White-naped Tit
- Described by
- (Jerdon, TC, 1845)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Parus nuchalis
- Described by
- (Jerdon, TC, 1845)
- Type locality
- Eastern Ghats, India.
- Original description
- Madras Journal of Literature and Science 13, pt.2, no.31 p.131
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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