Cyanistes

Cyanistes is a genus of birds in the tit family Paridae. The genus was at one time considered as a subgenus of Parus. In 2005 an article describing a molecular phylogenetic study that had examined mitochondrial DNA sequences from members of the tit family, proposed that a number of subgenera including Cyanistes be elevated to genus status. This proposal was accepted by International Ornithologists' Union and the British Ornithologists' Union.

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• Tiny british woodland bird cyanistes caeruleus roosting overnight in timelapse
• Tiny woodland bird cyanistes caeruleus hatches out from an egg
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The genus contains three species:

The name Cyanistes was introduced for the subgenus by the German naturalist Jakob Kaup in 1829. The word comes from the classical Greek kuanos meaning dark-blue.