Azure Tit

Azure Tit

Cyanistes cyanus cyanus
Grönhögen, Öland - October 13 2016
The Azure Tit is an extremely rare vagrant in Sweden, and it was sooo nice to finally see it as it was also a lifer. However, this particular bird is probably one of the most debated individual of all. Soon after its discovery, doubt was raised on the genetic purity. It was believed that a few percent of the genes were of Blue Tit, thus a hybrid. My own position is that it should be counted anyway, since most of us humans have a few percent Neanderthal genes in us, and still consider us Homo sapiens, don't we?