A small Eurasian songbird that resembles a tit, having black, white, and pink plumage and a long slender tail, and building a domed nest.
长尾山雀
Genus Aegithalos, family Aegithalidae: several species, in particular A. caudatus
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There has been an increase in the number of common tits visiting gardens with blue, great, coal and long-tailed tits all up in numbers.
My bird list included long-tailed tit, greenfinch, mistle thrush, collared dove, pied wagtail, great tit and a particularly coloured male bullfinch.
Blue, great and long-tailed tits all continue to prosper and since over 70 per cent of gardens surveyed provided peanuts, this may not be surprising.
Several correspondents made reference to this habit when reporting siskins and long-tailed tits feeding on peanuts.
In contrast, birds such as nuthatches, long-tailed tits and collared doves are spreading into new areas and their numbers seem to be on the up.
Soon I saw a flock of nine long-tailed tits and disturbed a tawny owl from its roost in an ivy-covered tree.
Here, between two spring-fed lakes, we had our sandwiches and watched a dozen acrobatic long-tailed tits spin in the branches.
I'd eaten mine, so the dozen long-tailed tits will have to stick with their dinners in the alder trees.
Some nests in each of the study sites were protected from avian predators by cages of 6 cm wire-netting, which permits access by long-tailed tits, but not corvids.
In Scotland, where I work, long-tailed tits start constructing their nests as early as March, when spring still looks a lot like winter.