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🦉 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

It is a great luck to meet this beautiful bird. It avoids noisy places near cities, preferring quiet river backwaters or overgrown meadows. In its behavior and even voice, it is a typical tit. However, it has one feature that distinguishes it from the rest. This is its agility! The bird is capable of performing acrobatic tricks clinging to the tips of thin branches to get to food. Which other species of tits do not do.

It feeds, like all tits, on insects and seeds, but, for example, unlike its closest relative, the blue tit, it is more granivorous, apparently due to the region where it lives, where the weather is much colder.