Birdwatching - 1857 🐦

🦉 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

I recently learned from an ornithologist that a subspecies of this species lives in our region - hyperrhiphaeus. And judging by the translation, it is distinguished by darker plumage.
The bird is quite rare, and you need to know where to look for it.
Namely, these are various water bodies such as flooded meadows, floodplains, along rivers and swampy areas. For some reason these birds gravitate there.

Since this is a tit, its behavior corresponds to this family. Even the voices are similar and resemble, for example, the voices and style of singing of the great tit.
But what especially distinguishes this species from others (according to my observations) is their agility and “acrobatics”. If other species of tits jump on branches in search of food and do not stay for a long time, then this species can climb small branches and somersault to reach hard-to-reach places.