PARIDAE
SULTAN TIT

Location :Fraser's hill 
Date : 28 August 2022

20.5 cm Male sultanea: Large; black and yellow, yellow crest.Female: Duller/browner above, washed green, yellowish-olive throat/upper breast. Juvenile: Duller than female, shorter crest, whitish greater covert tips, sooty-olive throat/upper breast.Male gayeti (S Laos, C Annam): Black crest (both sexes). Other subspecies M.s.flavocristata (S Myanmar to SE Thailand and southward). VOICE Clear piu-piu-piu-piu-piu.. song. Rattling tji-jup, shrill squeaky tria-tria-tria, tcheery tcheery-tcheery and squear-squear-squear etc. HABITAT Broadleaved forest; up to 1,680 m (below 1,200 m in Thailand and Pen Malaysia). RANGE Un/lc R (except C Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, southern S Annam, Cochinchina)