Chestnut-bellied Tit
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Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

Chestnut-bellied Tit

Sittiparus castaneoventris

LCLeast Concern Endemic to Taiwan
Family
Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice (Paridae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The chestnut-bellied tit (Sittiparus castaneoventris) is a small passerine bird in the tit family Paridae that is endemic to Taiwan.
The chestnut-bellied tit was first described by the English ornithologist John Gould in 1863 and given the binomial name Parus castaneoventris. It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the varied tit but was promoted to species status after the publication of a phylogenetic study in 2014.
The species differs from the varied tit in having underparts of a deep chestnut colour.

Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Range and habitat

Taiwan.

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

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Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.