Fire Capped Tit

About Fire Capped Tit

• It is a small bird species assigned to the family Paridae.
• Migration pattern: It is a Himalayan bird which flies down south towards Western Ghats and Kerala around Sept, and is back around Feb-end and March.
• Habitat: Inhabits forest feeding on invertebrates, nectar and pollen, usually high in canopy but will descend to low growth.
• It is found in montane broadleaf forest at middle to high elevations, sometimes mixed in with other species.
• These birds breed in the Himalayas during summer and have a melodious song.
• 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.
• Conservation status
  • IUCN: Least Concern

Why early reverse migration?

• The winters were not very harsh in central India. So, the bird could have started moving early.

Q1) What is migration?

The movement of a person or people from one country, locality, place of residence to settle in another place. Migration is, first and foremost a normal human activity.

Source: Birds reverse-migrate to city, watchers see end of winter