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Long-tailed tits Then there was a twittering, a long-tailed tit appeared in the hedge and hopped into a half-built nest, not 10 feet from me! Holding the long tail cocked out of the way, it squirmed and wriggled as it worked the nest fabric with its feet and bill. Of course, the long-tailed tit is not a proper tit. The long-tailed tit does not nest in a hole and the male helps build the nest. homepage.ntlworld.com /rwburton/naturenotes/lttnest   (278 words)

Barford Community Website The long-tailed tit is easily recognisable with its pink, black and white plumage, a tail that is noticeably longer than its body, and distinctive undulating flight. Originally, blue tits were woodland birds and in winter they often join in large flocks with other species of tits to forage for insects, seeds and nuts. The smallest member of the tit family, the coal tit can be distinguished by the white spot on the back of the neck. www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~kroberts/barford/html/birds_tits.html   (878 words)

German Garden Birds The mother tit seemed to be putting up a fight from inside the box, and in a few seconds away came the woodpecker and the mother tit, fluttering and spiraling together (she may have even been holding on with her beak). While it was basically green, the head tended toward the yellowish, and the long tail toward the bluish. In both cases where tits were protesting to a larger bird, it seemed to me that more than one species was involved (great and blue at least). members.aol.com /kalakot2/1/birdsgg.html   (2204 words)

titmouse on Encyclopedia.com To this group belongs the Javanese pygmy tit (3 in./7.5 cm long, most of it tail); the bush tits of the American West are closely related. A third group, the penduline tits, are named for their hanging bag nests; the only American species is the western verdin. Some titmice have crests, e.g., the crested tit of Eurasia and the tufted titmouse, Lophophanes bicolor, a mouse-gray bird with rust side patches common in the E United States. www.encyclopedia.com /html/t1/titmouse.asp   (534 words)

Garden Diary April 2004 It turns out that there was a pair of Long-tailed tits here, and their behaviour suggests very strongly that either they have started nesting, or they are thinking about it. When I got back outside with my camera the puzzle took another turn when the Blue Tit flew into the adjacent opening in the Sparrow box, the hole she used for the rest of the time that I was watching. To my amazement, a Blue Tit fly into the garden, high over the Hawthorn and straight into one of the 32mm entrances in the new House Sparrow box. www.mybitoftheplanet.com /2004/2004apr.html   (2110 words)

Long-tailed tits - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds The long-tailed tit is easily recognisable with its distinctive colouring, a tail that is bigger than its body, and undulating flight. Looking through the feedback we received after the Big Garden Birdwatch, many people mentioned that they were thrilled to see long-tailed tits, or said it was the first time they had seen them in their garden. Long-tailed tits are very easy to identify and found throughout the UK. www.rspb.org.uk /birdwatch/2005results/top20/longtailedtits.asp   (530 words)

The Japan Times Online There is some data suggesting that long-tailed tits are starting to lay their eggs earlier in the year. The ready social behavior of the long-tailed tit pays off during the raising of the young: Other birds that have failed to breed often assist the parents, bringing food for the young. Long-tailed tits are vulnerable to the weather, and cold winters kill many individuals. www.japantimes.com /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20041209at.htm   (475 words)

Birding The Nothe Diary There seem to be two Long-tailed Tit flocks at present on The Nothe, but this is the first time I have seen them all together, and presumably they all roost in the same spot. The first Long-tailed Tit flock of the autumn actually arrived in off Newton's Cove as I watched, while an Arctic Tern - another juv - was off the Stone Pier. The fine weather promised raptors, and indeed the second Kestrel of the year was in an aerial dogfight with a Sparrowhawk over the south shore. www.naturalist.co.uk /nothe/nothe_diary2004.4.htm   (1632 words)

SBSG - Photographs and Info Long-tailed Tits are the subject of a study by Dr Ben Hatchwell in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, here at the University of Sheffield. Long-tailed Tit is probably the most attractive of our tit species. It has a requirement for low dense vegetation in which to build a comparatively [for its' size] large domed nest, and this type of habitat is traditionally found in areas of countryside scrub or gorse or in mature hedgerows. www.sbsg.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /long_tailed_tit.html   (234 words)

Yard birding in Enhagen, Västerås, Sweden. The 2004 additions were Lesser White-fronted Goose, Long-tailed Tit, Parasitic Jaeger, Common Redshank and Tawny Owl. One Crested Tit was heard and seen for less than tenseconds tomtskådning in the morning on September 13. At 01.45 on April 30 a long awaited Tawny Owl was heard, not so far away. www-pp.hogia.net /bengt.stridh/Enhagen/Ebirds.html   (547 words)

Titmouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The tits, chickadees, and titmice, family Paridae, are a large family of small passerine birds which occur in the northern hemisphere and Africa. These birds are called "chickadees" (derived from their distinctive "chick-a dee dee dee" alarm call) or "titmice" in North America, and just "tits" in the rest of the English speaking world. In England, Great Tits learned to break open the foil caps sealing bottles of milk that had been delivered to homes to get at the cream floating on top. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titmouse   (388 words)

Long-tailed Tit - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography Long-tailed Tits are birds of deciduous woodlands with undergrowth. The Long-tailed Tit, Aegithalos caudatus, is a very small passerine bird. It is closely related to the true tits, and in winter it is often found with tit flocks. www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Aegithalos_caudatus   (186 words)

WORLDTWITCH - Malaysia Birding by Frank Rheindt From the small waterfall, the trail leads through some lush growth (Black Magpie, Crested Jay, Dusky Broadbill, Rufous-tailed Shama) to a cave, where the surrounding forest is usually dead, but (on one occasion) yielded a flock of Brown Fulvetta, Gray-headed and White-necked Babblers and even Fluffy-backed Tit-Babblers. The first portion of the long trail leads to a smaller waterfall, but the large clearing and arboretum before it are well worth some scrutiny (White-capped Shama, Horsfield's Babbler, Red-bearded Bee-eater). Of three regional endemics, one (Mountain Peacock-Pheasant) is illusory and the second (Malayan Partridge, formerly Gray-breasted Partridge) eluded me and is apparently unreliable, though it is regularly recorded around the refreshingly well-kept trail from the mosque along the golf course. www.worldtwitch.com /malaysia_birding_rheindt.htm   (3822 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - long-tailed tit All of the jaegers nest in Arctic regions around the world, and winter at sea south into the southern hemisphere. The shrew family is the largest among the insectivores (Insectivore), and numerous species are found on all major land areas of the world except the... See all search results in Photos and more (44) ca.encarta.msn.com /long-tailed_tit.html   (3822 words)

BirdForum - long tailed tit explosion The long-tailed tit population has always swung up and down according to the severity of the winter. Although we have always had Long-tailed Tits in the neigbourhood in the last month a pair have started to visit the peanut feeder. Once upon a time, a glimpse of this pink gem was relatively unusual. www.birdforum.net /printthread.php?t=3638   (351 words)

Long-tailed tit - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds The long-tailed tit is easily recognisable with its distinctive colouring, a tail that is bigger than its body, and undulating flight. Gregarious and noisy residents, long-tailed tits are most usually noticed in small, excitable flocks of about 20 birds. Like most tits, they rove the woods and hedgerows, but are also seen on heaths and commons with suitable bushes. www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/l/longtailedtit/index.asp   (190 words)

Tit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It can also be a mild admonishment as in the phrase: "you're being a right tit, aren't you" to mean that another person is being somewhat foolish This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. Tit for Tat, a strategy in game theory en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tit   (116 words)

Colin Butters Natural History Diary Viewing at long range, there is hardly any difference in appearance between those fields that have been ploughed and seeded and the seeds have not yet germinated because of lack of water and the fields which have been left as grass and which have turned brown because of the same cause. I suppose the Coal Tit had come from one of the two small copses on the other bank which would be more in keeping with its normal habitat. was not made due to the poor light and long distance it appeared that few if any have boosted the approximate number of 140 of about a week ago. colinbutters.com /octdec3.html   (5738 words)

Long-tailed Tit Long-tailed Tits are small and delicate looking birds, with beautifully subtle plumage and (as the name suggests) a long tail. Historically, Long-tailed Tits were regarded as rare visitors to bird tables, but Garden BirdWatch results (together with those from the Garden Bird Feeding Survey) have shown an increase in the use of gardens and the food we provide. This species has a very different appearance to the other tits and can easily be separated from them by its long, narrow tail, small size and colouration. www.bto.org /gbw/Species/BIRDS_LOTTI.htm   (548 words)

long-tailed tit The tail of the kingfisher is as short as the tail of the long-tailed tit is long, and the same goes for the bill - but then the other way round. The mute shades of the long-tailed tit are traded for the bright, almost florescent tints. A group of pastel-coloured balls of fluff with disproportionably long tails were busy making their way restlessly through a row of alders. webserv.nhl.nl /~borwell/wytgaard/stukjestaartmeeseng.html   (594 words)

British Garden Birds - Long-tailed Tit The Long-tailed Tit's nest is an elastic ball of moss, spiders' webs, lichen, feathers, and hair that is built by both birds in a bush, hedge or tree; brambles and gorse are favourite places. Increasingly, Long-tailed Tits are feeding from peanut feeders and peanut suet cake in gardens. The black and white tail is very long, over half the length of the bird and the longest tail of any British bird in proportion to its body. www.garden-birds.co.uk /birds/longtailedtit.htm   (388 words)

WEB-SLOPS: Long Tailed Tit I've made it a little easier to settle the eye on the bird by blurring the background. We took lots of photos of a small flock we found flitting amongst the trees by the river. They're like little balls of fluff with a tail. mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /webslops/pages/birds/long_tail_tit.htm   (81 words)

Birds of a feather breed together Long-tailed tits breed co-operatively, with ‘helpers’ working together with breeding pairs to increase the chance that young are reared successfully to adulthood. We hypothesised that the long-tailed tit’s ‘churr’ call may be the one they use to recognise kin, as this is a common contact call. A study at the University of Sheffield, and published in Nature on Thursday 28 April 2005, has found that long-tailed tits rely on a family support network to bring up their offspring, and that they recognise family members through an individual family call that they learn in the nest. www.innovations-report.com /html/reports/life_sciences/report-43673.html   (318 words)

Birds Long-tailed Tits eat mostly small aphids (a type of insect). Although small, their beaks are longer and slimmer than most other Tits, and they can reach inside cones to pull out the seed. The Great Tit builds a nest of moss, hair and feathers, in a hole in a tree, wall or in a water pump, flowerpot or letterbox. www.naturegrid.org.uk /biodiversity/birds/titmice.htm   (974 words)

Self-Service Science Forum Message As for Tit speceis, they belong to three families - the Aegithalidae(long-tailed tits), Remizidae(Penduline Tits) and Paridae(Tits, chickadees and titmice). Tits are seed eaters not flycatchers and there are many birds smaller than them. In Australia the fairy wrens, thornbills, weebills and silvereyes (for a start) are all smaller than tits. pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/10082/20010703/www2b.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/posts/topic187496.html   (1114 words)

Aegithalos caudatus - Long-tailed tit Long-tailed tits build their nests in bushes, using moss, wool, feathers and spiders' webs to create a deep dome with a tiny side entrance. A shy bird of hedgerows and copses, the long-tailed tit is a very social bird. (There is a northern race of long-tailed tits with all-white heads.) www.first-nature.com /birds/aegithalos_caudatus.htm   (143 words)

Long Tailed Tit identification, habitat, calls and food. Young Long Tailed Tit's have chocolate-brown sides of the head and nape, brown back and the remaining plumage is like that of the adults. Long Tailed Tit identification, habitat, calls and food. The extremely long tail comprises over half the length of this species, and is a distinguishing feature. www.noahsarkgardens.co.uk /Wildlife/Birds/LongTailedTit.htm   (322 words)

Information on long-tailed tits in a wet woodland. A small tit with its tail longer than its body. The tail is black with white outer feathers, the underparts white with pink. It has a tiny black bill and wings which are black and white with a broad pink band across the upper edge. www.offwell.free-online.co.uk /birds/longt.htm   (144 words)

Long Tailed Tit The Long Tailed Tit is not in fact directly related to the other common members of the Tit family resident in the UK. For much of the time, Long Tailed Tits will move about in large family groups, often working their way backwards and forwards along tree lined hedgerows, or flitting from tree to tree in deciduous woodland. For digiscoping purposes, Long Tailed Tits can be extremely frustrating, due to their habit of being constantly on the move. homepage.ntlworld.com /andy.holt/digiscope/longtailedtit/ltt.htm   (112 words)

Demand for feathers - Bird Study Long-tailed Tits were shown to forage actively for feathers up to 115 m from the nest but possibly not as far as 200 m. It is suggested that Long-tailed Tits may be attempting to avoid competition for feathers by nesting early. The first of 18 species to breed in the area which use feathers in their nests was the Long-tailed Tit. www.gla.ac.uk /departments/ibls/DEEB/mhh/abstracts/dfbmw.htm   (184 words)

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