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Willow Tits are small Eurasian tits. Males and females look alike. Willow Tits have a black-and-white head. The cap and the nape of the neck, as well as a small "bib", are sooty-grey; the ear coverts and the sides of the neck are white. The entire front, from chest to undertail coverts, is white to off-white, with pale-grey sides. The back, wings and tail are grey. They have dark irises, a very short and thin dark-grey bill and grey legs and feet.

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of the Willow Tit is available HERE .

Willow Tits are a sedentary species. Their overall range encompasses basically the entire East-West width of Europe and of Asia, with a northern limit near the Arctic circle and a southern limit from the Mediterranean North coast via Asia Minor into southern Asia, along parts of the Himalayas to central and north-eastern China, northern Korea, far-eastern Siberia (including Kamtchatka and Sakhalin) and all of Japan.

Apart from one small area in mountainous central Italy, in Europe Willow Tits can be found only north-eastward of a line connecting England/Wales with the Bretagne and the Cote d'Azure in France, EXCEPT Scotland, Ireland, southern Greece and associated islands and the northern Black Sea coastal fringe. In the North their range extends to the Arctic circle and slightly beyond (but not to islands in the Arctic).

At higher altitudes Willow Tits have a preference for coniferous and birch forest, while at lower altitudes they are also at home in mixed forest.

S. Cuturilov reports netting, ringing and releasing a Willow Tit at Vlasina Lake, Serbia, in October 2019. All sighting and photographic information presented on this page has kindly been contributed by S. Cuturilov.