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Hubert

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I'm looking for informations about taxonomy and areas of each subspecies. I'll be very greatful for scans sent on my mail :) hubert(at)przyroda.org
 
Hubert,

I have e-mailed the relevant sections of Cramp/BWP and Harrap & Quinn 1996 Tits, Nuthatches & Treecreepers.

Hope this helps.
 
Follow list from Bird taxa of the WP:
http://www.aerc.eu/DOCS/Bird_taxa_of _the_WP15.pdf

AEGITHALIDAE
Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus

Irbii-group
(1) irbii Southern Portugal, southern Spain, and Corsica [includes tyrrhenicus]
(2) italiae Mainland Italy and west Slovenia [includes romanus]
(3) siculus Sicily

Alpinus-group
(4) tephronotus Western half and central-south of Asia Minor
(5) major North-east Turkey, Caucasus, Transcaucasia (except south-east Azerbaydzhan) and north-west Iran [includes caucasica, dorsalis, senex]
(6) alpinus South-east Azerbaydzhan, northern Iran, and south-west Turkmenistan [includes poeltzami]
(7) passekii South-east Turkey and south-west Iran

Europaeus-group
(8) taiti Northern Portugal, northern Spain, and south-west and Mediterranean France [includes bureaui, pyrenaicus]
(9) aremoricus Western and west-central France [includes galliae]
(10) rosaceus Britain and Ireland [includes chlamyrhodomelanos]
(11) europaeus Continental west, central, and south-east Europe, from Belgium, north-east France, Alps, north of former Yugoslavia, northern and eastern Bulgaria, and north European Turkey north to Denmark, Germany, former Czechoslovakia, and Carpathians [includes expognathus, potyi]
(12) macedonicus Western and southern parts of former Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, south-west and south-central Bulgaria, and west European Turkey
(13) tauricus Crimea

Caudatus-group
(14) caudatus Northern Europe from Fenno-Scandia, Poland, and Ukraine (except Crimea) to Urals [includes brachyurus]
(15) sibiricus Northern Asia from Urals east to Kamchatka [includes kamtschaticus]
 
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