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Eurasian blue tit

Cyanistes caeruleus · Family Paridae

Cyanistes caeruleus

Family Paridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Paridae
GBIF occurrence records
11,196,125
Countries and territories with records
75
Eurasian blue tit
Sławek Staszczuk · Parus caeruleus1.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sławek Staszczuk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Benoît Van Hecke · Cyanistes_caeruleus_-_Eurasian_Blue_Tit_XC538220.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Benoît Van Hecke · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 11,196,125 occurrence records from 75 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (17.6%), France (12.9%), the United Kingdom (12.2%), Finland (11%) and the Netherlands (10.2%); together they account for 63.9% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 1.9% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Cyanistes caeruleus combines the genus name Cyanistes with the species epithet caeruleus. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Cyanistes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cyanistes teneriffae and Cyanistes cyanus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 61 species of the family Paridae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Poecile atricapillus. Its record count is 8.5 times the family average (1,310,770). The family Paridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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