African Blue Tit

Overview

African Blue Tit (Cyanistes teneriffae) is a species of Tits, Chickadees (Paridae) in the order Perching Birds (Passerines).

Scientific Classification

Genus: Cyanistes; binomial: Cyanistes teneriffae; authority: (Lesson, RP, 1831).

Distribution

Breeding range: Africa.

Conservation Status

This taxon is listed as Extant (living) in the IOC World Bird List.

Remarks

Cyanistes teneriffae is split from C. caeruleus (Salzburger et al. 2002). Subspecies sequence follows Stervander et al. (2015). Five to seven of the current subspecies may deserve full species status. Retain C. teneriffae as a single polytypic species pending further comprehensive analyses of all populations (Sangster 2006; Stervander et al. 2015; Illera et al. 2016).