Rufous-naped tit
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Paridae
Genus:	Periparus
Species:	P. rufonuchalis
Binomial name
Periparus rufonuchalis (Blyth, 1849)
Range of Periparus rufonuchalis
Synonyms
Parus rufonuchalis Blyth, 1849

The rufous-naped tit (Periparus rufonuchalis), also known as the black-breasted tit or dark-grey tit, is an Asian songbird species in the tit and chickadee family (Paridae). It was sometimes considered conspecific with the rufous-vented tit (P. rubidiventris), and was formerly placed in the genus Parus.^[2]

This tit is a native of the western Himalayas, but has a very large range, occurring in parts of India, China, Pakistan, Turkestan, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan. Widespread and common, it is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.^[3]

• BirdLife International (2008). "Parus rufonuchalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2009.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)
• Gill, Frank B.; Slikas, Beth & Sheldon, Frederick H. (2005): Phylogeny of titmice (Paridae): II. Species relationships based on sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene. Auk 122(1): 121–143. DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0121:POTPIS]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract

• Media related to Periparus rufonuchalis at Wikimedia Commons
• Picture of the rufous-naped tit

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