Turkestan Tit

Parus bokharensis ferghanensis (Buturlin, 1912)

2012-10-28 Shymkent	© Gennadiy Dyakin

Description

Upper parts are darker, more grey-bluish, less pure-bluish; general size is bigger than in bokharensis. Male wing 67.0-75.4, female 65.0-72.2 mm. Male bill 8.3-9.2, female 8.0-9.4 mm.

Distribution

Breeds in Western Tien Shan (Pskem and Ugam ridges). In Aksu-Dzhabagly Reserve breedы from 1983. Probably this race lives in Karatau (Besaryk river) and in Borolday, where 1982-1985 it breeds in nest-boxes. Recent years it became common an autumn at Chokpak Pass. On dispersal rarely occurs outside the breeding range.

References

"Птицы Казахстана" том 4. "Наука". Алма-Ата, 1972. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999. Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005.