For the first time white-naped tit at Kadakola village in the Kappatagudda hills, North Karnataka.
It is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.
It is endemic to India, where it is found in dry thorny scrub forests in two disjunct populations, in western India and southern India.
This species is very patchily distributed and has been vulnerable to extinction.
In India, it is found in only some parts of Rajasthan, Gujarat, the Eastern Ghats of Southern Andhra Pradesh, Northern Tamil Nadu, Haryana, and Southern Karnataka.
In South Karnataka, it’s documented only in the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary.