Birdwatching - 1895 🐦

🦉 The azure tit (Cyanistes cyanus hyperrhiphaeus)

• Cyanistes kyaneos (Greek), cyaneus (Latin) dark blue
• cyanus Greek: kyanos dark blue
• hyperrhiphaeus Greek: hyperrheō to overflow, phaios dark, dull

These birds are quite rare, and you need to know where to look for them. And this needs to be done near rivers. Which is exactly what I have been doing for many years. It is in close proximity to rivers (in my city, and in flooded meadows in the steppe) that I always meet these birds. What completely distinguishes them from other birds of this family (Paridae)

I took these pictures in the fall near a large river flowing along several cities. In the bushes I heard the familiar voice of a bird and went there. I saw how this cute bird, tumbling on the tips of branches, found something and ate. By the way, dexterous acrobatic movements are also one of the features of this species.