🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus)
📚 Aegithalos (Greek): tit
📚 caudatus (lat.): tailed
Real charm!
These cute white balls with a long tail will not leave you indifferent when you meet them in the forest.
They live in small family flocks, and live very friendly. Moreover, not only to each other, but also to other types of birds. It is not surprising that in autumn they participate in mixed bird flocks, they are very social.
I was very surprised by the fact that older children help their parents build new nests for the second clutch, as well as feed their younger brothers and sisters.
Oh yes, in addition to their children, they can be helped in this by, so to speak, the "friends" of the couple, who for some reason were left without a nest or fledglings.
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Now this is the first time I'm knowing that birds also help their parents just like humans do. I thought they get sperated when they can flap expertly and can find food for themselves. I think this particular specie are just extraordinary.
Yes, this happens in nature. And not only in these species of birds. For example, I read somewhere for a long time that the nest of the redstart was destroyed by a strong wind and she was left without fledglings. But she realized her maternal instinct in helping to feed the swallow fledglings that lived in the neighborhood.
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Great pictures ratel. I saw bushtits often in California but don't think they live here on the east coast. I admire your captures. They are very active flitting from branch to branch and so tiny. I had real problems getting a decent shot.
Thank you very much! Do not despair, you will succeed. Try to lure the bird to the sound. Sounds can be downloaded here https://xeno-canto.org/
great picture, beautiful bird
thanks!