Japanese tit
| Japanese tit | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Paridae |
| Genus: | Parus |
| Species: | P. minor
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| Parus minor | |
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| Distributions of Parus minor (blue-green), Parus major (orange-red), and Parus cinereus (grey) | |
The Japanese tit (Parus minor), also known as the Oriental tit, is a passerine bird which replaces the similar great tit in Japan and the Russian Far East beyond the Amur River, including the Kuril Islands. Until recently, this species was classified as a subspecies of great tit (Parus major), but studies indicated that the two species coexist in the Russian Far East without intermingling or frequent hybridization.[1]
The species made headlines in March 2016, when Suzuki et al.[2] reported in Nature Communications that they had found experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls, marking the first such evidence for that type of syntax in nonhuman animals.[2]
References
- ^ Päckert, M.; Martens, J.; Eck, S.; Nazarenko, A. A.; Valchuk, O. P.; Petri, B.; Veith, M. (2005). "The great tit (Parus major) – a misclassified ring species". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 86 (2): 153. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00529.x.
- ^ a b Suzuki, TN; et al., "Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls", Nature Communications, 7: 10986, doi:10.1038/ncomms10986.
External links
- Japanese tit at Avibase
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