Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus)
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About Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus)
- Kingdom: Animals
- Phylum: Chordates
- Class: Birds
- Order: Perching Birds
- Family: Bushtits
The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit is a common bird in the bushtit family found throughout Eurasia. An insectivore, it inhabits deciduous and mixed woodlands in addition to scrub, heathland, farmland, parks and gardens. It is a very small, long-tailed bird, being predominantly black and white with varying amounts of pink and grey. Northern subspecies are paler and have completely white heads, lacking the large dark eyebrows of southern populations. It is a social bird, forming compact family flocks of six to seventeen birds outside of the breeding season, when the flocks break up. It has a strong preference to nest in scrub areas, where the nest is often built in thorny bushes less than 3 metres above the ground.
Source: Wikipedia
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Olympos Mountains National Park, Turkey -
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Listvyanka, Russia -
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