12-03-2008, 08:32 PM
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| Re: Cyanistes caeruleus or Parsus Caeruleus
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Originally Posted by aeshna5  Great Tit is now the only British tit in the genus Parus; P. major.
Coal Tit is in genus Periparus, Willow + Marsh in Poecile, Blue is Cyanistes + Crested is in Lophanes. It's mind-blowing the number of new scientific names we have to learn- especially when it's happening across all taxa of plants, animals, fungi, etc. One day a fuse is going to blow in my brain! | I'm not adopting any of the new names until the BTO do I reckon! |