Twite

Acanthis flavirostris korejevi (Zarudny et Harms, 1914)

2014-10-10 Acsuat,Eastern Kazakhstan	© Serg Silan

Description

Upperparts are darker, pale edges of mantle feathers are more brownish-buff, less pale-buff than in kirghizorum. White edges of secondaries are narrow.

Distribution

Breeds in Kalbinskiy Altai, Tarbagatay, in Zaysan depression and Chiliktinskaya valley. In winter occurs in the south-eastern Kazakhstan at Zharkent, whence this race was described, though details of distribution are not investigated.

References

"Птицы Казахстана" том 2. "Наука". Алма-Ата, 1962. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999. Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005.