White-shouldered Black Tit

Melaniparus guineensis (Shelley, 1900)

16 gWeight

The white-shouldered black tit (Melaniparus guineensis), also known as the pale-eyed black tit, is a passerine bird in the tit family.

Busiest months: March · Most records: Ghana, Uganda, Cameroon

Least Concern

Where and when it's recorded

White-shouldered Black Tit has been recorded at 64 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 15 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Mole NP – Mole Hotel & waterholeGhana205 records
Mole NPGhana175 records
Shai Hills Resource ReserveGhana151 records

More places

Mole NP – Samole Loop & waterholeGhana147 records
Mole NP – Samole loopGhana76 records
Mole NP – Asibey Loop/Haraba track vicinityGhana72 records
Shai Hills RR – Kandra RouteGhana56 records
Ziwa Rhino SanctuaryUganda46 records
Ngaoundaba RanchCameroon41 records
Benoue NPCameroon35 records

Countries and regions with the most records

Ghana Uganda Cameroon Gambia Ethiopia Nigeria Niger Côte d’Ivoire

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

About

The white-shouldered black tit (Melaniparus guineensis), also known as the pale-eyed black tit, is a passerine bird in the tit family. It breeds in a belt across Africa from Senegal in the west to Kenya and Ethiopia in the east. It is sometimes considered conspecific with the more southerly white-winged black tit Melaniparus leucomelas and, like that species, it is mainly black with a white wing patch, but differs in that it has a pale eye.

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Questions

How big is the White-shouldered Black Tit?

The White-shouldered Black Tit weighs around 16 g.

Where does the White-shouldered Black Tit live?

Its breeding range: Africa: southern Mauritania and Senegal to southern Sudan and Eritrea, south to Cameroon and northern DR Congo. It is most often recorded in Ghana, Uganda and Cameroon.