African Blue Tit
Cyanistes teneriffae · Tits & Chickadees
African Blue Tit
Tenerife, 13 April 2026
An African Blue Tit among flowering tree heather in the laurel forest of Tenerife, the Canary Islands' own tit, only fairly recently split out as a full species from its European relative. It is a bird of the island pine and laurel forests, and the tree heather here is one of its favourite feeding trees.
A black cap rather than the mainland European Blue Tit's blue one, and a much deeper yellow underside. The name is for North Africa, where the same species lives in the Atlas cedar forests, and the Canary birds are its island outpost.
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