Singing Willow Tits Poecile montanus: Sino-Japanese song type recorded in the southern and western Altai, Kazakhstan, June-July 2013

摘要

Willow Tits Poecile montanus (Conrad von Baldenstein, 1827) have developed different songs in different geographic regions. However, these song types do not necessarily match the geographic distributions of-subspecies. In the Altai of central Asia song types mix and differ on a small scale. In the southern and western Altai, recordings and records of singing Willow Tits were lacking. I heard singing Willow Tits at four different locations there and made five recordings, all performing the Sino-Japanese song type. Using playback, individuals only responded to the local song type.