Chinese penduline tit

The Chinese penduline tit (Remiz consobrinus) is a species of bird in the family Remizidae.

Chestnut mantle, half-collar and wing-coverts contrast with dark wings and black tail in flight.

The Chinese penduline tit is found especially in reedbeds and marshes in Manchuria ; it winters sparsely throughout eastern Asia (namely along the Yangtze river valley).

It inhabits, in nesting and non-nesting, in areas of agricultural pastures, wetlands with marshes or brackish ponds.

It feeds on insects, larvae, spiders, caterpillars and sometimes, especially in winter, on small seeds.

The female, having arranged the interior of the nest, generally lays between 5 and 10 eggs, which she incubates alone during 12 to 15 days.