Eurasian Penduline Tit

Remiz pendulinus stoliczkae (Hume, 1874)

2013-05-05 Serebrjansk	© Serg Silan

Description

On sizes and colour close to jaxarticus from which differs by more pale general colour and more light brown mantle band. Crown sometimes may be more greyish-whitish, less pure whitish. Claw of back finger as at jaxarticus. Male wing length 50.8-54.8 (53.0) mm.

Distribution

Breeding in Southern Altai (found in spurs of Narymskiy ridge in 1993), on road Ust-Kamenogorsk - Rakhmanovskiye springs, in Zaysan and Balkhash-Alakol depressions, where nests observed in Sasykkol lake, in Urdzhar-Emel area, in Dzhungarskiy Alatau and in Ile delta. Distribution on migration is not found out.

References

Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999. В.К.Рябицев. "Птицы Урала, Приуралья и Западной Сибири". Екатеринбург. Изд-во Уральского университета, 2000.