Coal Tit

The coal tit is a small tit 10–11.5cm long with a distinctive large white nape spot on a glossy blue-black head, throat and neck, off-white face sides tinged grey or yellow depending on subspecies. The black-crested tit is now included in the species. It is a widespread and common resident breeder in forests throughout the temperate to subtropical Palearctic, including North Africa (Wikipedia, general species account).

Seven to eleven red-spotted white eggs are usually laid in May, and it typically breeds once a year. While searching for food, flocks maintain contact with incessant short calls. In Bhutan it is a fairly common resident above the subtropical zone, at around 3,000–3,800m, in forests dominated by Bhutan fir (Wikipedia, general species account).