European Long-tailed Tit

Aegithalos caudatus europaeus (Hermann, 1804)

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Sub-species

STATUS

Europe.

OVERVIEW

BOURC (2013) state that only a ringing recovery or other physical evidence that an individual was from the core range of the subspecies will be sufficient for admission of europaeus to the British List.

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NOT PROVEN

0). 1882 Kent Castle Down, Dover, undated, now at Rochester Museum.

(BOURC (2013), Ibis 155: 205)

[BOURC (2014), Ibis 156: 237].

History BOURC (2014) state that the plumage characters of the specimen, while probably indicative of a mainland European origin, were not consistent with A. c. europaeus as currently defined. The specimen may represent A. c. caudatus or an intergrade.'