Birdwatching - 2041 🐦

🦉 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

For me, meeting this white tit is a great joy, because this species is very rare and is encountered from time to time. It happens that the bird can simply disappear for several years.
These birds live in close proximity to water, that is, where there are streams or swamps, or more precisely, forest-steppes, steppe zones, mixed forests.

In its behavior it is a typical tit, like the great tit, willow tit or coal tit. However, I noticed something that distinguishes it from its sisters. It is much more agile. This tit is able to tumble on thin branches, hold on to a leaf with one paw. and, for example, hold food in the second. The bird is industrious and very carefully examines each branch in search of food, when other tit species give up halfway.