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Willow Tit

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Willow Tit
Both Sexes
Buff-brown with a black cap and bib.
Poecile montanus ...

 


Willow tit
Between blue and great tits in size, with no yellow, green or blue. It has a large sooty-black cap extending to the back of the neck and a small untidy black bib. It is mid-brown above, with whiter ch... More...
Willow warbler ...

Like all tits, the willow tit is very active when feeding, flitting constantly from twig to twig, searching for insects often among low bushes but also high in conifers, birch and alders.

Willow Tit, Parus montanus (Poecile montana)
Songar Tit, Parus songarus (Poecile songara)
Carolina Chickadee, Parus carolinensis (Poecile carolinensis)
Black-capped Chickadee, Parus atricapilla (Poecile atricapillus) ...

Willow Tit Poecile montanus
Songar Tit Poecile songarus (often included in P. montanus)
Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis
Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
Mountain Chickadee Poecile gambeli
Mexican Chickadee Poecile sclateri ...

Typical of the family are the blackcapped chickadee, Parus atricapillus, of the NE United States, the nearly identical Carolina chickadee of the South, and the similar willow tit of Europe and the British Isles. Some titmice have crests, e.g.

Parus montanus - Willow Tit
Parus cinctus - Siberian Tit
Parus cristatus - Crested Tit
Parus atricapillus - Black-capped Chickadee (in Birds of NWO)
Sittidae - Nuthatches
Sitta
Sitta europaea - Nuthatch ...

See also: Tit, Chickadee, Coal tit, Mouse, Crested Tit

Animals Willow ptarmiganWillow warbler

 
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