Azure Tit

Parus cyanus hyperrhiphaeus (Dementiev et Heptner, 1932)

2015-02-01 Kustanai oblast. Karabalyk.	© Yuriy Malkov

Description

Head is white. Mantle is lighter, more greyish-bluish, less bluish; white on secondaries more distributed than in cyanus.

Distribution

Breeds in middle current of Ural valley, in Northern Kazakhstan (Naurzum, Petropavlovsk area, Kokchetav upland), at Borovoye, Alekseyevka and Astana, in eastern part of Kazakh upland (Bayanaul, Kent, Kyzylray), near Karaganda and in Kalbinskiy Altai, in east to western foothills of Altai. On dispersal and in winter occurs somewhat in south (in Kurgaldzhino and near Chelkar station).

References

Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999. В.К.Рябицев. "Птицы Урала, Приуралья и Западной Сибири". Екатеринбург. Изд-во Уральского университета, 2000.