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  TITMOUSE - LoveToKnow Article on TITMOUSE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
It is by false analogy that the plural of titmouse is made titmice; it should be titmouses.
Not inferior in beauty or ingenuity is the nest built by the penduline titmouse, Aegithalus pendulimis, of the south of Europe, which differs, however, not merely in composition, but in being suspended to a bough, while the former is nearly always placed between two or more branches.
It is seldom long before a titmouse of some kind finds the dainty, and once found visits are made to it until every morsel is picked off.
7.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TI/TITMOUSE.htm   (1386 words)

  
 Plain Titmouse
The Plain Titmouse is a year-round resident from southern Oregon, northeastern Nevada, southern Wyoming, and western Oklahoma, south to Baja California, central and southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and extreme western Texas.
The Oak Titmouse is a year-round resident from southern Oregon south to Baja California and prefers oak woodlands, streamside cottonwoods, forest edges and oak-juniper woodlands.
The Juniper Titmouse is a year-round resident from southeastern Oregon and central Colorado south to southeastern California, Arizona, extreme western Texas and prefers Pinyon-juniper woods.
www.coveside.biz /plain-titmouse.htm   (193 words)

  
 birds template   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Titmouse is any of a family of small woodland birds found throughout much of the world.
The plain titmouse is the most common species in the Western United States.
Chickadee is the name of seven species of small birds in the titmouse family.
www.worldbook.com /features/birds/html/types_song_titmouse.html   (498 words)

  
 Titmouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
The name titmouse is attested from the 14th century, composed of the Old English name for the bird, mase (Proto-Germanic *maison) and tit, denoting something small.
He wrongfully calls the fury rodent a "titmouse", not realizing that a titmouse is infact a bird.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titmouse   (463 words)

  
 Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Baeolophus bicolor
Size: The Tufted Titmouse is a small songbird, measuring 17 cm (6.5 in) from tip of bill to tip of tail.
It is common for the Titmouse to forage in mixed species flocks with Chickadees, Nuthatches, and small woodpeckers.
The Tufted Titmouse occurs year-round throughout Georgia wherever favorable habitat is present.
museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/birds/passeriformes/bbicolor.html   (442 words)

  
 Tufted Titmouse
The Tufted Titmouse is commonly found over most of eastern North America and parts of southern Canada, especially where deciduous and mixed woodland is found.
The closely related Black-crested Titmouse is mostly restricted to the tree and shrub savanna and shrub step regions of Texas and eastern Mexico (Root 1988).
The distribution and abundance of the Tufted Titmouse coincides with that of the Carolina Chickadee, except in the northern parts of its range where it overlaps with the Black-capped Chickadee.
www.wbu.com /chipperwoods/photos/ttitmouse.htm   (597 words)

  
 Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse: Breeding from eastern Nebraska, southern Michigan, and Maine south to Texas, Gulf Coast, and central Florida, within swampy or moist woodlands, and shade trees in villages and city parks; in winter, at feeders.
Tufted Titmouse: Four to eight white to creamy white eggs speckled with brown are laid in a natural cavity, bird box, or woodpecker hole lined with bark, leaves, soft grass and moss, snakeskin, and bits of animal fur and hair.
Tufted Titmouse: Similar to this bird is the Phainopepla, which is sooty gray overall and larger in size.
identify.whatbird.com /obj/676/_/Tufted_Titmouse.aspx   (778 words)

  
 XTG Systems - Linux, web and cross-platform development
Titmouse is a small development environment for rapid coding and debugging of Lua scripts.
I am working on the wxWindows clone of the Titmouse (wxTitmouse) which will enable me to work on the Windows and Linux version of the little bird at the same time and so there are chances that the full-featured Linux version will be released and on par with the Windows version all the time.
The Titmouse will not be the wxWindows application only but also a class which will be able to be put easily into any other wxWindows application (on any platform).
www.xtgsystems.com /linux/lua/titmouse.php   (512 words)

  
 Crested Titmouse
The crest of this species, which is generally erect, is a great improvement to its general appearance, the tints of the plumage being, as you perceive, kind reader, none of the most brilliant.
The Crested Titmouse is of a rather vicious disposition, which sometimes prompts it to attack smaller birds, and destroy them by thumping their heads with its bill until it breaks the skull.
This species sometimes forms a nest by digging a hole for the purpose in the hardest wood, with great industry and perseverance, although it is more frequently contented with the hole of the Downy Woodpecker, or some other small bird of that genus.
www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F10_G1a.html   (1078 words)

  
 Audubon WatchList - Oak Titmouse
The Oak Titmouse gives a repeated series of three to seven syllables, each comprised of one low and one high note, while the Juniper Titmouse song consists of a series of rapid syllables on the same note.
The titmouse nests in mostly natural cavities and sometimes in old woodpecker holes.
Its 1,400 acres of oak woodland and mixed evergreen forest is considered by naturalists to be one of the finest examples of oak-savannah grassland and low altitude conifer forest in the northern California Coast Range.
audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=148   (875 words)

  
 Birds » Wild Birds » Titmouse - Tufted Main Page
The Tufted Titmouse, a little songbird common to the Eastern United States, is an adorable and friendly bird to have visiting in your backyard.
The Tufted Titmouse is a welcome visitor in backyards throughout the United States.
The Tufted Titmouse is a social bird; they can be found in social groups with other birds like it, usually smaller birds like chickadees or Downy Woodpeckers.
www.centralpets.com /pages/critterpages/birds/wild_birds/WBD3841.shtml   (572 words)

  
 Massachusetts State Bird - Maine State Bird - Black Capped Chickadee
In the State of New York it is abundant, and often rears two broods in the season; as you proceed eastward you may observe it in all places favourable to its habits; and, according to Dr. RICHARDSON, it is found as far north as lat.
The light rustling sound of their concave wings would intimate their approach as well as their retreat, as gaily one after another they passed onwards from one spot to another, chattering, peeping everywhere, and determined as it were, not to suffer a chink to pass without inspection.
To the Black-cap Titmouse the breaking of a hazel-nut is quite a pleasure, and I have repeatedly seen the feat accomplished not only by a bird in its natural state, but by one kept in confinement.
www.50states.com /bird/chickade.htm   (2423 words)

  
 Oak Titmouse Species Account for California
Oak Titmouse is found west of the desert divides in southern California, southeast from Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
The distribution of the Oak Titmouse is complex and discontinuous in California.
In the South Bay area the Oak Titmouse is found in the canyon bottoms of the Diablo range and over most of the lower portions of the Santa Cruz mountains.
www.prbo.org /calpif/htmldocs/species/oak/oatiacct.html   (2798 words)

  
 Attracting the Titmouse at Wild Birds Forever
The titmouse family is distinguished by their gray color, and lighter bellies, their jazzy tufted head, short, sharp beak, and adorable large bright eyes.
The titmouse, with its energetic temperament can be seen nervously flitting about your feeding station.
The Titmouse will be a frequent visitor to your feeders in the winter.
www.birdsforever.com /titmouse.html   (200 words)

  
 Tufted Titmouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
In the first half of this century, the Tufted Titmouse was found primarily along the Mississippi and Ohio river basins.
The Tufted Titmouse is an active, noisy, and conspicuously vocal bird whose typical song is a loud whistled peter peter peter.
A dominant bird at feeders, the Tufted Titmouse often chases away birds that are the same size or smaller.
birds.cornell.edu /BOW/TUTI   (300 words)

  
 All About Birds
A common bird of forest and feeders in the eastern United States, the Tufted Titmouse is often seen foraging in groups with other birds.
The Black-crested Titmouse of Texas and Mexico has at times been considered just a form of the Tufted Titmouse.
Rarely a young titmouse remains with its parents into the breeding season and will help them raise the next year's brood.
www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Tufted_Titmouse.html   (269 words)

  
 TUFTED TITMOUSE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The mouse-colored bird with the pointed headdress can instantly be identified as the tufted titmouse.
Like its associates, chickadees and nuthatches, the titmouse is an outstanding acrobat.
The tufted titmouse has lots of curiosity and is not easily frightened.
www.baylink.org /wpc/titmouse.html   (214 words)

  
 Titmice at Lava Beds
This great shot of Oak Titmouse was taken by John Sorensen in Monterey County ("MTY" hereafter) and does show the brownish tone to the upperparts typical of MTY birds in good light.
A gray titmouse is common and approachable in the campground at Lava Beds National Monument, eastern Siskiyou Co., California.
To my eye, the Oak Titmouse bill looks "thicker" but the mystery titmouse bill looks a bit longer (however, my May 1982 photo of the MTY titmouse is a bit foreshortened).
www.montereybay.com /creagrus/titmouse_id.html   (1697 words)

  
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The Tufted Titmouse appears at first to be just a plain gray bird, but on closer inspection, it is quite unordinary.
The Titmouse lives year-round in the eastern U.S. It frequents broadleaf shade trees such as oaks in towns or parks, as well as moist woodlands or swamps.
The “Black-crested Titmouse” is a subspecies in Texas and southwestern Oklahoma.
www.jeremiahstokely.com /titmouse.htm   (289 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - titmouse (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
titmouse, common name for members of the Paridae, a family of passerine birds, which includes the tits, titmice, and chickadees.
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.
These typical titmice nest in tree cavities; the long-tailed tits weave complex bag nests.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/titmouse.html   (334 words)

  
 All About Birds
Formerly lumped with the Juniper Titmouse as the species known appropriately as Plain Titmouse, the Oak Titmouse is small drab bird whose small head tuft is nearly its only field mark.
When roosting in foliage, the titmouse chooses a twig surrounded by dense foliage or an accumulation of dead pine needles, simulating a roost in a cavity.
The Oak Titmouse, unlike other members of the family, does not form flocks in winter.
www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Oak_Titmouse_dtl.html   (278 words)

  
 Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
From the 1970s until 2002 these two species were "lumped" into just the Tufted Titmouse, but then in 2002 they were again split, so once more we have both species.
The "normal" Tufted Titmouse, such as the bird shown at the left, is widespread across all of Eastern North America.
The Black-crested Titmouse, restricted to central and west Texas and Mexico, has a fl crest and a pale or sometimes buffy forehead.
www.greglasley.net /tutitmouse.html   (284 words)

  
 titmouse on Encyclopedia.com
TITMOUSE [titmouse] common name for members of the Paridae, a family of passerine birds, which includes the tits, titmice, and chickadees.
Genetic evidence for extrapair paternity in the Tufted Titmouse.
Heralds of spring.(Tufted Titmouse bird and Spring Azure butterfly)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/t1/titmouse.asp   (836 words)

  
 Yahooligans! Animals: Tufted Titmouse
Titmice are social birds and, especially in winter, join with small mixed flocks of chickadees, nuthatches, kinglets, creepers, and the smaller woodpeckers.
Although a frequent visitor at feeders, the titmouse is not as tame as the chickadee.
It often clings to the bark of trees and turns upside down to pick spiders and insects from the underside of a twig or leaf.
www.yahooligans.com /content/animals/species/1950.html   (130 words)

  
 Titmouse - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
Hear the song of the titmouse anywhere with the Wild Republic Singing Tufted Titmouse.
This Titmouse Thermometer is a hand silk screen with as many as 16 colors on a clear acrylic thermometer.
Attracts cardinals, chickadees, doves, finches, jays, nuthatches, sparrows, titmouses, towhees, and grosbeaks.
www.nextag.com /titmouse/search-html   (363 words)

  
 Titmouse Pair, Larry Zach Wildlife Art Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The tufted titmouse is a common woodland bird a little larger than the chickadees and nuthatches with which it frequently joins at bird feeders.
In Titmouse Pair I chose to compliment the subtle beauty of titmice with dried wild sunflowers, which, in this case, provide a convenient resting place.
These came in handy again when I reworked ‘Titmouse Pair’ since the wild sunflowers at that time were still in full bloom and I needed the dried winter heads.
www.zachwildlifeart.com /zgtitmousepair.html   (246 words)

  
 Great Titmouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Compared to the male, the female is slightly paler, but it usually is very hard to tell the difference.
The Great Titmouse makes a nest in a hole.
Actually any hole will do, including those in rocks, trees, or those made bij woodpeckers or man. Not less than eight to twelve eggs are produced (usually four to six survive).
www.gardensafari.net /english/pages/koolmees.htm   (417 words)

  
 tufted titmouse
The Tufted Titmouse is small bird, about six inches long.
The titmouse also has a small crest of feathers sticking up on its head.
Titmice prefer to live in swampy, moist woods, however they have becomed accustomed to people and will live in parks and yards.
www.fcps.k12.va.us /StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/tufted_titmouse.htm   (316 words)

  
 eNature.com Nature Guides
Although a frequent visitor at feeders, the titmouse is not as tame or confiding as a chickadee.
The Black-crested Titmouse of Texas and Oklahoma was recently considered a subspecies of Tufted Titmouse.
Black-crested Titmouse (B. atricristatus), found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas, is similar but has fl crest.
www.enature.com /flashcard/show_flash_card.asp?recordNumber=BD0011   (118 words)

  
 TITMOUSE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The order in the list below follows Harrap & Quinn, with the incorporation of the recent split of Plain Titmouse into Oak and Juniper Titmice, and the addition of Hume's Ground Tit.
These birds are called "chickadees" or "titmice" in North America, and just "tits" in the rest of the English speaking world.
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ti/Titmouse.htm   (229 words)

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