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Taxonomic note

Sittiparus varius, S. owstoni, S. olivaceus and S. castaneoventris (del Hoyo and Collar 2016) were previously lumped as Parus varius following Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
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Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2024	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2012	Not Recognised
2008	Not Recognised
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	high
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	2,930,000 km2	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	decreasing	-	-	-
Generation length	2.72 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified. This species is considered to have a high dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 2.4% within its mapped range over the past 10 years (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein). It is therefore tentatively suspected that this rate of cover loss may have led to a decline of between 1-19% in the species' population size over the same time frame, with a best estimate of reduction being less than 5%.

Trend justification:   .

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
China (mainland)	extant	native	yes
Japan	extant	native	yes
North Korea	extant	native	yes
Russia	extant	native	yes
Russia (Asian)	extant	native	yes
South Korea	extant	native	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Japan	Ishizuchi range
Japan	Mount Hyonosen
Japan	Mount Yatsugatake
Japan	Mounts Asama, Shirane and Tanigawa
Japan	Okutadami, Okunikko and Okutone mountains
North Korea	Mount Chilbo
North Korea	Mount Kuwol
North Korea	Mount Myohyang

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rural Gardens	suitable	resident
Forest	Temperate	major	resident
Altitude	0 - 3710 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Scale
Pets/display animals, horticulture	international

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Varied Tit Sittiparus varius. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/varied-tit-sittiparus-varius on 23/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/11/2024.