Fire capped tit

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Very lovely Pratim.

As usual, expertly painted Pratim.

Lovely, Pratim. What a lovely collection in your gallery

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PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON NO. 684. OBSERVE THE BIRD AND RECOGNIZE..FIRE CAPPED TIT... WATERCOLOUR...A4... 2016..[ From Ref. photograph of Mr. RAJESH PANWAR]... The fire-capped tit (Cephalopyrus flammiceps) is a small (length 10 centimetres or 3.9 inches, weight 7 g) bird species assigned to the Paridae family, that breeds in the temperate forests bordering the Himalayas to the south, in the Hengduan Shanand Nujiang Shan on the Myanmar-China border, the Micah Shan and Daba Shan on the Northern Sichuan border. It winters down hill and further south. The species was once considered to be a kinglet but is today treated as a tit. It is placed in a monotypic genus, Cephalopyrus. Its previous assignment to the Remizidae family was not entirely satisfactory, as this species nests in hollows in trees, as do the true tits and chickadees (Paridae), so it was placed there. It also lays blue eggs, like the Verdin Auriparus flaviceps, and not white. Its small cone-shaped bill, and its song however