Azure Tit

Parus cyanus yenisseensis (Buturlin, 1911)

2016-10-25 Eastern Kazakhstan. Gerasimovka.	© Askar Isabekov

Description

Head is grey-tinged. mantle is lighter than in cyanus, but darker than in hyperrhiphaeus. White on secondaries distributed same as in cyanus.

Distribution

Breeds in Southwest Altai, in Zaysan depression, Saur ridge and in eastern part of Dzhungarskiy Alatau. In this range occurs also on dispersal and wintering.

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.