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White-winged Black-Tit
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White-winged Black Tit
Melaniparus leucomelas
The white-winged black tit (Melaniparus leucomelas) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is also known as the white-winged tit, dark-eyed black tit or northern black tit. The species was first described by Eduard Rüppell in 1840.
From the article White-winged black tit on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
It is mainly black with a white wing patch, but differs from the more northern white-shouldered tit (Melaniparus guineensis) with which it sometimes considered conspecific in that it has a dark eye.
Range & habitat
It is found in central Africa, from Angola in the west to Ethiopia in the east. There are two races:
M. l. leucomelas Rüppell, 1840 – Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan M. l. insignis Cabanis, 1880 – African equator to southern subtropics
Wikipedia: “Range and races”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 144832.