Which acrobatic garden bird has the Latin name parus caeruleus?
Eurasian blue tit The Eurasian blue tit prefers insects and spiders for its diet. Outside the breeding season, they also eat seeds and other vegetable-based foods. The birds are famed for their skill, as they can cling to the outermost branches and hang upside down when looking for food. The Eurasian blue tit was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of his "Systema Naturae" under the binomial name "Parus caeruleus". "Parus" is the classical Latin for a tit and "caeruleus" is the Latin for dark blue or cerulean. Two centuries earlier, before the introduction of the binomial nomenclature, the
Calochilus caeruleus and the description was published in "Botanical Museum Leaflets" from specimens collected near Tarara on the Wassi Kussa River in the west of Papua New Guinea. The specific epithet ("caeruleus") is a Latin word meaning "sky blue". The wiry beard orchid grows in swamps, wet forests, heath and woodland in New Guinea, the Northern Territory including Melville Island and in Tropical North Queensland as far south as Cardwell. Calochilus caeruleus Calochilus caeruleus, commonly known as the wiry beard orchid, is a species of orchid native to northern Australia and New Guinea. It has a single leaf which continues to develop