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<br />Hoja Obigarm, Pamir, [[Tajikistan]], March 2008]]
 
;[[:Category:Cyanistes|Cyanistes]] flavipectus
 
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[[Image:Yellow-breasted_Tit.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Askar Isabekov
 
<br/>Location: Hoja Obigarm. Pamir. Tajikistan]]
 
 
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
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13–14 cm<br />
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A bluish-grey tit with a yellow breast
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
[[Afghanistan]], [[China]], [[India]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Pakistan]], [[Russia]], [[Tajikistan]], [[Turkmenistan]], and [[Uzbekistan]].
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[[Asia]]: found in [[Russia]], [[Siberia]], [[Turkestan]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Turkmenistan]], [[Tajikistan]], [[Afghanistan]], [[China]], [[Tibet]]<br />
 
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'''South Asia''': occurs only in [[Pakistan]]
 
==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
Considered conspecific with [[Azure Tit]] by some authorities.
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Considered conspecific with [[Azure Tit]] by some authorities<sup>[[#References|[1], [2]]]</sup>.
 
==Habitat==
 
==Habitat==
 
Temperate forests.
 
Temperate forests.
 
==Behaviour==
 
==Behaviour==
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====Diet====
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Their diet consists of a variety of small insects and their larvae and includes aphids and moths.
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==References==
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#{{Ref-Clements6thAug14}}#Avibase
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#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2015)
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{{ref}}
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
{{GSearch|Cyanistes+flavipectus}}
 
{{GSearch|Cyanistes+flavipectus}}

Revision as of 23:11, 27 February 2015

Photo by Askar Isabekov
Hoja Obigarm, Pamir, Tajikistan, March 2008
Cyanistes flavipectus

Identification

13–14 cm
A bluish-grey tit with a yellow breast

Distribution

Asia: found in Russia, Siberia, Turkestan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China, Tibet
South Asia: occurs only in Pakistan

Taxonomy

Considered conspecific with Azure Tit by some authorities[1], [2].

Habitat

Temperate forests.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of a variety of small insects and their larvae and includes aphids and moths.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2015)

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