Shima enaga(long-tailed tit) Japanese cute bird (oct-3

Long-tailed tit Long tailed Tit on a washing line - - Perched on a washing line in Shropshire 0:00 Calls recorded in Cambridgeshire Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Aegithalidae Genus: Aegithalos Species: A. caudatus Binomial name Aegithalos caudatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Parus caudatus Linnaeus, 1758 Taxonomy and systematics Edit The long-tailed tit was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Parus caudatus.[2] The specific epithet caudatus is the Latin word for “tailed“.[3] Linnaeus did not invent this Latin name. “Parus caudatus“ had been used by earlier authors such as the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in 1555,[4] the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1599,[5] and the English ornithologist Francis Willughby in 1676. Willughby listed the English name as th
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