page_title: White-naped tit
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: White-naped tit / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Parus nuchalis illustration from Jerdon's Illustrations of Indian Ornithology
context_page_description: The white-naped tit, sometimes called white-winged tit, is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is endemic to India where it is found in dry thorn scrub forest in two disjunct populations, in western India and southern India.
  Its specific name nuchalis means ‘of the nuchal, nape’.
  This species is hard to mistake with its contrasting black and white patterns without the grey wing coverts and back of the partly sympatric cinereous tit. This species is very patchily distributed and has been considered to be vulnerable to extinction especially because of the scarcity of suitable habitats particularly nest cavities made by woodpeckers.
context_section_description: The only pied (black-and-white) tit in India, this species has the wing-coverts, crown, sides of head, chin, throat, a ventral band running down the breast and belly to the vent black. The cheeks below the eye, the ear-coverts and a patch on the nape are white. The wing has white on the outer primaries and the base of the secondaries. The last tertiaries are completely white. The two outer tail feathers are white while the next has the outer web white and the remaining black. The white of the flanks can be suffused with yellow.
caption: From Jerdon's Illustrations of Indian Ornithology (1847)
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