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White-bellied tit

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ27075377 ↗
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The white-bellied tit (Melaniparus albiventris) is a species of bird in the family Paridae.

It is found in Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

The white-bellied tit was formerly one of the many species in the genus Parus but was moved to Melaniparus after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2013 showed that the members of the new genus formed a distinct clade.

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This entry incorporates text from “White-bellied tit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.