Fire-capped Tit

The fire-capped tit is a small bird, 10 cm long and about 7 g, assigned to the tit family, that breeds in the temperate forest bordering the Himalaya to the south, and in mountains on the Myanmar–China border and northern Sichuan (Wikipedia, general species account).

In breeding plumage, February to July, the male has a slight orange-scarlet crest. Outside the breeding season, September to January, the crown is dark olive-brown with a yellowish olive-green border, the upperparts yellowish to olive-green and the rump yellowish to olive-golden. Eggs are usually four, dull blue-green, and the incubation period is unknown. Calls include a high-pitched, jerky tsit-tsit-tsit-tsit (Wikipedia, general species account).