Fire-capped Tit

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male's crest orange-red in breeding season
2. Male's supercilium and area around the eye golden-yellow tinged red in breeding season
3. Male's chin and throat orange, breast golden-yellow in breeding season
4. Tips of tail feathers white

Male, female and young

In the non-breeding season, the female differs little from the male, with somewhat olive-gray-green upperparts and a grayish-white chin and throat.

Voice

A high, rapid “tsit-tsit-tsit-tsit”; the contact call is a soft, low “whitoo-whitoo”.

Where and when it's recorded

Fire-capped Tit has been recorded at 131 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 6 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Bhondsi Nature ParkIndia142 records
2. Longcanggou [General Area]China84 records
3. Doi Pha Hom Pok NP – Doi Lang (W), AKA Doi San JuThailand66 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaIndiaThailandBhutanNepalMyanmar (Burma)

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

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