Fire-capped Tit

Latin Name: 
Cephalopyrus flammiceps
Category: 
Tits
Size: 
9cm
Description: 

A tiny, green and yellow tit, the male with a red crown and throat in breeding plumage. Green above with two thin, white wing bars. Deep yellow below in male, paler in female and almost white in juvenile. Beady black eyes and very short pointed bill.

Habitat: 
Inhabits forest feeding on invertebrates, nectar and pollen, usually high in canopy but will descend to low growth.
Distribution: 
A local breeding summer visitor to northern mountains from Pakistan east to Arunachal Pradesh. Winters in foothills and rarely in plains south to Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
Call: 
Call Description: 
Soft tsit and tsee…tsee… tsee. Song a quiet we…two…we two…we…two.
IUCN: 
Least Concern
National Status: 
very local resident
At IITK: 
Vagrant or irregular visitor