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Japanese Tit (Parus minor), also known as Oriental Tit, is a passerine bird which replaces the similar Great Tit in Japan and the Russian Far East beyond the Amur River, including the Kuril Islands. Until recently, this species was classified as a subspecies of Great Tit, but Russian studies have indicated that the two species coexist in the Russian Far East without intermingling or frequent hybridization.
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- Packert et al., "The great tit (Parus major) – a misclassified ring species", Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 86, Number 2, October 2006, pp. 153-174(22)
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