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Ground tit
| Ground tit | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Paridae |
| Genus: | Pseudopodoces Zarudny & Loudon, 1902 |
| Species: | P. humilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudopodoces humilis (Hume, 1871)
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| Distribution | |
| Synonyms | |
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Podoces humilis Hume, 1871 | |
The ground tit, Tibetan ground-tit or Hume's ground-tit (Pseudopodoces humilis) is a bird of the Tibetan plateau north of the Himalayas. The peculiar appearance confused ornithologists in the past who called it as Hume's groundpecker and still later as Hume's ground jay or Tibetan ground jay assuming that it belonged to the family Corvidae that includes the crows and jays. Although morphologically confusing, the species has since been identified using molecular sequence comparisons as being a member of the tit family (Paridae) and is the only species in the genus Pseudopodoces.[2] It is found in the Tibetan Plateau of China, India, Nepal & Bhutan.
- ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Pseudopodoces humilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22705903A118691713. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22705903A118691713.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ James et al. (2003), del Hoyo et al. (2007)
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