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2014-05-14
Chimgan |
© Sveta Ashby
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Adult Yellow-breasted Azure Tits have pale-grey head including throat. Black Eye-strip is slightly expressed. Head is bordered from mantle by broad black band. Back and shoulders are bluish-grey. Inner webs of flight feathers are brownish, outer webs and wing coverts are bluish. White tips of wing coverts formed broad wing-bar. Last secondaries have large white spots than furled wing have clear broad bar in rear border. Central pair of tail feathers are brownish-blue with small terminal spot; on each next pair white terminal spots are extended. On outer tail feathers dark occupies only main part of inner web. Craw and breast are lemon-yellow. Belly is white. Legs and bill are dark-horn color. Juveniles have brownish yellow-tinged upperparts; all underparts (including throat) are yellow. Sizes: wing 61-75, tail 58-66, tarsus 14-18, bill 6.6-8.0 mm. Weight 10.6-12.1 gr.
"Птицы Казахстана" том 4. "Наука". Алма-Ата, 1972.
