Ground tit
Pseudopodoces humilis (Hume, 1871)
The ground tit (Pseudopodoces humilis) is a species in the family Paridae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 45 g to 46.8 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.
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Quick facts about the ground tit
- Weight
- 45 g – 46.8 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- Not recorded
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- rockysrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- 5 – 7src for Young per litter or clutch
- Lifestyle
- Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
- Migration
- Partialsrc for Migration
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
Where does the ground tit live?
Not recorded
What is the ground tit?
The ground tit, Tibetan ground tit, or Hume's ground tit (Pseudopodoces humilis) is a bird of the Tibetan plateau north of the Himalayas. The peculiar appearance confused ornithologists who in the past variously called it Hume's groundpecker, Hume's ground jay or Tibetan ground jay on the assumption it belonged to the family Corvidae that includes the crows and jays. Although morphologically confusing, the species has since been identified using molecular sequence comparisons as being a member of the tit family (Paridae), and is now treated as the only species in the genus Pseudopodoces. It is found in the Tibetan Plateau of China, India, Nepal & Bhutan.
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Is the ground tit endangered?
The ground tit is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.
- LCLeast Concern
- NTNear Threatened
- VUVulnerable
- ENEndangered
- CRCritically Endangered
- EWExtinct in the Wild
- EXExtinct
Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species.
How is the ground tit classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classAves
- orderPasseriformes
- familyParidae
- genusPseudopodoces
- SpeciesPseudopodoces humilis (Hume, 1871)
Synonyms Parus humilis, Podoces humilis, Pseudopoces humilis, Pseudopodoces humilis humilis, Pseudopodoces humilis saxicola
Other names and names in other languages (42)
- Hume's ground jayEnglish
- Hume's ground titEnglish
- Hume's groundpeckerEnglish
- Tibetan ground-jayEnglish
- Tibetan ground-titEnglish
- قرقف أرضيArabic
- Carboneru terrestreAsturian
- mallerenga terrestreCatalan
- sýkora tibetskáCzech
- strakule tibetskáCzech
- brân ddaear HumeWelsh
- TibetmejseDanish
- TibetmeiseGerman
- HöhlenhäherGerman
- AlaŭdoparuoEsperanto
- grunda paruoEsperanto
- Tibeta paruoEsperanto
- Carbonero terrestreSpanish
- maatihaneEstonian
- maatiainenFinnish
- pikkuaavikkonärhiFinnish
- Mésange de HumeFrench
- pozemna sjenicaCroatian
- törpe pusztaiszajkóHungarian
- Gracchio terricolo di HumeItalian
- Ghiandaia terragnola di HumeItalian
- ヒメサバクガラスJapanese
- dirvinė zylėLithuanian
- zemes zīlīteLatvian
- HolengaaiDutch
- HolenmeesDutch
- bakkemeisNorwegian
- pseudosójeczkaPolish
- chapim-terrestrePortuguese
- Тибетская ложносойкаRussian
- jakárka krivozobáSlovak
- markhackareSwedish
- Toprak BaştankarasıTurkish
- синиця довгодзьобаUkrainian
- Sẻ ngô đất HumeVietnamese
- 地山雀Chinese
- 褐背擬地鴉Chinese
Relatives of the ground tit
Other species in the same family Paridae.
Great tit
Parus major
Eurasian blue tit
Cyanistes caeruleus
Coal tit
Periparus ater
Crested tit
Lophophanes cristatus
Marsh tit
Poecile palustris
Willow tit
Poecile montanus
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Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the ground tit?
An adult ground tit weighs 45 g – 46.8 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Is the ground tit endangered?
The ground tit is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.
What kind of animal is the ground tit?
The ground tit (Pseudopodoces humilis) belongs to the family Paridae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.
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Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds · CC BY 4.0 · v7
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