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  Tufted Titmouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tufted Titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor, is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.
These birds have grey upperparts and white underparts with a white face, a grey crest, a dark forehead and a short stout bill; they have rust-coloured flanks.
The Black-crested Titmouse, which is found in central and southern Texas and was considered to be a subspecies of this bird, is now considered a separate species.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tufted_Titmouse   (225 words)

  
 Tufted Titmouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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)

  
 Birds, Familiar: Tufted Titmouse, Life Histories of North American Birds, A.C. Bent
Voice.--The notes of the tufted titmouse are many and varied, mostly loud and generally pleasing; it is a noisy bird.
Field marks.--The tufted titmouse may be recognized as a small gray bird, less than English sparrow size, with a prominent, flish crest, and chestnut-brown flanks.
Tufted titmice are practically permanent residents in even the more northern portions of their range, being regularly found in winter as far north as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois.
birdsbybent.com /ch21-30/titmouse.html   (4935 words)

  
 Tufted Titmouse Photos and Information
The Tufted Titmouse, Parus bicolor, is one of the small birds common to many feeders.
The tufted titmouse is is grey with a white breast, with a tuft of feathers on its head.
Tufted titmice have an even call of "Pe-ter, pe-ter, pe-ter", in medium speed, with the first note being higher than the second.
wine.wineintro.com /birding/encyc/titmouse   (147 words)

  
 Northeastern Naturalist: Northward expansion of the tufted titmouse in Maine, The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This note was instigated by a tufted titmouse that spent the winter of 1995-1996 in undeveloped coniferous forest at the north end of Flagstaff Lake at one of the feeding stations I maintained to study the impacts of winter food supplementation on overwintering birds.
The general pattern in Maine is an invasion of the tufted titmouse that began in the early 1980s.
The tufted titmouse has an average mass of 21.6 g (Dunning 1993) compared to the 10.8 g average for a fl-capped chickadee.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3845/is_199901/ai_n8837887   (1492 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 gray crest is a distinctive characteristic of the Tufted Titmouse, and its short, fl, very powerful bill is used to crack seeds and open snail shells.
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)

  
 Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Baeolophus bicolor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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)

  
 Birding Titmices - BirdingGuide.com
Along with the Tufted Titmouse, the chickadees, Plain Titmouse, Bridled Titmouse, Oak Titmouse and the Juniper Titmouse can be found in the U.S. The birds in the titmouse family are sparrow-sized, with a gray color, lighter undersides,perky tufted heads and large inquisitive bright dark eyes.
Tufted Titmice are the normal gray color with their lower parts light gray and their flanks will be a rusty orange color.
Tufted Titmice are usually eat insects and spiders by clinging to trunks of trees and branches, but in winter when not many insects are available, these titmice vary their diet with berries, nuts and seeds.
www.birdingguide.com /bird_families/titmices.htm   (723 words)

  
 Tufted Titmouse Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas
The Tufted Titmouse is a familiar visitor to feeders and a common breeding bird throughout the Panhandle and much of peninsular Florida.
Tufted Titmice are found in a variety of wooded habitats, such as cypress swamps, pine flatwoods, and hardwood hammocks.
As shown on the Atlas map, the Tufted Titmouse breeds over most of the northern two-thirds of the state but is conspicuously absent from much of the southeastern peninsula.
wld.fwc.state.fl.us /bba/tuti.htm   (458 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)

  
 The Birdhouse Network - Tufted Titmouse
The Tufted Titmouse is a year-round resident of the deciduous and mixed deciduous-coniferous forests in the eastern United States.
The diet of the Tufted Titmouse consists of a variety of invertebrates, such as caterpillars, beetles, wasps, ants, bees, treehoppers, spiders, and snails.
The Tufted Titmouse appears to be ecologically similar to the Great Tit in Europe.
birds.cornell.edu /birdhouse/bird_bios/speciesaccounts/tuftit.html   (664 words)

  
 Baebic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Tufted Titmouse has a grey crest and a tark forehead, with pale grey upperparts, white underparts and rusty flanks.
The Tufted Titmouse is not to be confused with the Black-crested Titmouse that resides in Texas.
It is interesting to note that the majority of the titmice themes recorded on this date were recorded on the second transect, which is farther into center of the preserve (approximately 160 m), away from edge effects and the road.
www.hope.edu /academic/biology/faculty/murray/consbio/NaturePreserve/Birds/Baebic.htm   (445 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 /animals/birds/wild_birds/wbd3841.html   (572 words)

  
 Vineyard Gazette - Bird News
The fl-crested titmouse of southern Texas used to be considered a separate species, but today they are lumped with our tufted titmouse.
Peter, peter, peter is the easily recognized call of the tufted titmouse and is used by both sexes; the chickadee-like song (tsee-day-day-day), however, is only used by the male.
Titmouse are unique in that the young stay with their parents over the first winter and sometimes even help raise the next generation during the following breeding season.
www.mvgazette.com /features/bird_news?document=20050114_bird_news   (614 words)

  
 FifthDayCreations - Tufted Titmouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The tufted titmouse is know for the "Peter Peter" song of the male.
The tufted titmouse is similar in size to the sparrow.
The tufted titmouse is found on the eastern half of the United States.
www.fifthdaycreations.com /articles/titmouse.asp   (391 words)

  
 Tufted Titmouse -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Tufted Titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor, is a small (Any bird having a musical call) songbird.
These birds have grey upperparts and white underparts with a white face, a grey crest, a dark forehead and a short stout (A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)) bill; they have rust-coloured flanks.
This bird's (A series of hills or mountains) range is expanding northwards, possibly with the increased availability of (Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment) food at (Click link for more info and facts about bird feeder) bird feeders.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tu/tufted_titmouse.htm   (270 words)

  
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The Tufted Titmouse is a usual inhabitant in The Eastern United States.
The Tufted Titmouse searches for food by moving in short jumps in the limbs and boughs of its favored trees.
The Tufted Titmouse continues to extend its territory northward, and studies propose that populations are flourishing in much of its range.
www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/1725/68955   (810 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)

  
 Heralds of Spring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The titmouse is mostly gray, but it has a white breast with buff-colored flanks and a white face surrounding oversized beads of fl eyes.
It is interesting that the titmouse usually sits more upright than the chickadee, but you don't need a subtle feature like that to tell the titmouse apart from the littler, round-headed, fl-bibbed chickadee.
Tufted titmice are the only kind of titmouse in the whole eastern half of the United States (a few other kinds are found in south Texas and parts of the Southwest).
www.motherearthnews.com /library/1995_Febuary_March/Heralds_of_Spring   (2268 words)

  
 Tufted Titmouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Tufted Titmouse is well-known for its noisy, conspicuous habits.
Tufted Titmice were found in nearly every block in every natural division except the Mississippi Lowlands.
Tufted Titmice were most abundant in the Ozark Border Natural Division followed by the Ozark Natural Division.
conservation.state.mo.us /nathis/birds/birdatlas/maintext/0400300.htm   (411 words)

  
 TITMOUSE HOUSES & TITMICE - Providing a titmouse house for the Tufted Titmice, Plain Titmice and other species of ...
The Tufted Titmouse ranges over nearly the entire eastern half of the US, excluding only the northernmost border and the southernmost tip of Florida.
The Plain Titmouse is the western cousin and lives in the southwestern states.
A less common variety, the Bridled Titmouse, is found only in the mountains of southern Arizona and New Mexico and has a small fl bib and fl "eyeliner" on its face.
www.coveside.com /merchant/titmice.html   (529 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.
Tufted Titmice are very good to have around since they eat huge amounts of insects.
www.fcps.k12.va.us /StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/tufted_titmouse.htm   (316 words)

  
 Wilson Bulletin: Genetic evidence for extrapair paternity in the Tufted Titmouse. (Short Communications).@ HighBeam ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wilson Bulletin: Genetic evidence for extrapair paternity in the Tufted Titmouse.
Genetic evidence for extrapair paternity in the Tufted Titmouse.
During 1995-1998, we used multilocus minisatellite DNA fingerprinting to estimate paternity and degree of relatedness in eight central Ohio broods of this socially monogamous species.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:95259707&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (227 words)

  
 bicolor
The Tufted Titmouse is a small grayish -blue bird which is distinguished by the pointed feather crest on top of its head.
Tufted Titmice range across the entire Eastern United States, excluding the southern most tip of Florida (http://www.birdsforever.com/titmouse.html).
Tufted Titmice are non-migratory birds who like to nest in holes or cavities in trees.
www.discoverlife.org /nh/tx/Vertebrata/Aves/Paridae/Parus/bicolor   (410 words)

  
 Golem: Spring 2002 Journal: Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The tiny titmouse is once again filled with dread at the thought of being humped by such a skanky skunk.
The skunk lifts the tiny titmouse to his heaving bosom and comforts him in his time of need.
Armed with newfound understanding and love for the lecherous skunk, the titmouse bares his tiny tufted chest, allowing the skunk to have his way with his tiny nipples.
webpub.alleg.edu /group/golem/sp02/sp02p1.html   (481 words)

  
 eNature: FieldGuides: Species Detail
Black-crested Titmouse (B. atricristatus), found in southwestern Oklahoma and Texas, is similar but has fl crest.
Although a frequent visitor at feeders, the titmouse is not as tame or confiding as a chickadee.
The Black-crested Titmouse, found from southwestern Oklahoma and northern Texas south into Mexico, was until recently considered a subspecies of Tufted Titmouse.
www.enature.com /fieldguide/showSpeciesRECNUM.asp?recnum=BD0011   (238 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Tufted Titmouse is an an active, noisy, and conspicuously vocal bird whose typical song is a loud whistled "Peter, Peter, Peter".
History: In the first half of this century, the Tufted Titmouse was found primarily along the Mississippi and Ohio river basins.
Eating Habits: The Tufted Titmouse tends to be a dominant bird at feeders and often chases away birds that are the same size or smaller.
www.msu.edu /~glennkri/Titmouse.htm   (217 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)

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