Bearded Tit

Male’s grey on head; buffy on mantle, rump, tail feathers and borders of outer webs of secondaries; wine colour on uppertail coverts lighter than nominate race; female’s upperparts also are lighter than nominate race. The local variability reflected in the existence of the populations slightly differing in intensity of plumage colouring in the different parts of the range (Northern Caucasus - dull colour, Ural river basin - dark colour, Syrdarya - light colour, Ile river - dark colour, Trans-Baykal area - light colour). But the individual variability is usually wider than these populations' distinctions.