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Long-tailed Tit

(Aegithalos caudatus)
Alternate name(s): "Long-tailed Bushtit", "Silver-throated Tit", "Silver-throated Dasher"
German name(s): "Schwanzmeise"

Size: 13-15 cm (incl. tail of 7-9 cm)
Description     Classification     Distribution     Sightings     Photos     Breeding     Nest     Eggs     Behaviour     Food     Call/s

Physical description

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Taxonomy, classification

See Long-tailed Tit at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species

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Sightings

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Photos

Race "europaeus"

ADULT

Sex unknown

Frontal view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of G. Normand)
[Near Nieppe, Hauts-de-France, France, March 2020]

Helper holding two Long-tailed Tits for documentation after ringing (photo courtesy of S. Cuturilov)
[Ovcarsko-Kablarski Canyon, near Cacak, Serbia, October 2017]

Lateral view of two Long-tailed Tits (photo courtesy of M. Thomas)
[Eltville, Hessen, Germany, February 2019]

Lateral view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of S. Cuturilov)
[Vlasina Lake, Serbia, October 2019]

Dorsal view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of M. Thomas)
[Eltville, Hessen, Germany, March 2018]

Race "taiti"

ADULT

Sex unknown

Near-frontal view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Mequinenza, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, September 2019]

Near-frontal view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, February 2016]

Near-lateral view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, January 2016]

Near-lateral view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, September 2019]

Near-lateral/ventral view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Mequinenza, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, September 2019]

Lateral view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Mequinenza, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, September 2019]

Lateral view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sorraia River, near Mora, Evora, Portugal, March 2019]

Lateral view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, September 2019]

Lateral/ventral view of a Long-tailed Tit issuing its call (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Sorraia River, near Mora, Evora, Portugal, March 2019]

Near-dorsal view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Mequinenza, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, September 2019]

Lateral/ventral view of a Long-tailed Tit launching itself into the air (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, September 2019]

IMMATURE/JUVENILE

Near-frontal view of a juvenile Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, September 2014]

Lateral view of a juvenile Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, September 2014]

Juvenile Long-tailed Tit hanging upside down from a twig (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, September 2014]

Race "irbii"

ADULT

Sex unknown

Lateral view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Pulo do Lobo, Amendoeira da Serra, Mertola, South Alentejo, Portugal, October 2019]

Near-dorsal view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Pulo do Lobo, Amendoeira da Serra, Mertola, South Alentejo, Portugal, October 2019]

Race "rosaceus"

ADULT

Sex unknown

Frontal view of a Long-tailed Tit (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Hyde Park, London, England, September 2019]

Food, Diet

Long-tailed Tits are insectivorous, specializing in small anthropods and on the eggs and larvae of butterflies and moths. In autumn they also feed on plant material.

Long-tailed Tits taking fat and seeds from a bird feeder (photo courtesy of M. Thomas)
[Eltville, Hessen, Germany, February 2019]

Long-tailed Tit and a Eurasian Blue Tit at a bird feeder (photo courtesy of M. Thomas)
[Eltville, Hessen, Germany, February 2019]

Clan of Long-tailed Tits at a bird feeder (photo courtesy of M. Thomas)
[Eltville, Hessen, Germany, February 2019]

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