Listen to the long-tailed tit
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About the long-tailed tit
The long-tailed tit is a bird in the family Aegithalidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults have a wingspan of about 18 cm.
What does the long-tailed tit sound like?
Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round. Listening for both helps with identification.
The recordings here are labelled as call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) is a common bird species belonging to the bushtit family found throughout Eurasia. An insectivore, it inhabits deciduous and mixed woodlands as well as scrub, heathland, farmland, parks and gardens. The plumage of this small long-tailed bird is 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 that forms compact family flocks of six to seventeen individuals outside of the breeding season, when these flocks break up. It has a strong preference for nesting in scrub areas and often builds its nest in thorny bushes less than 3 metres (10 feet) above the ground.
More from the family Aegithalidae
Frequently asked questions
What does a long-tailed tit sound like?
You can hear 5 recordings of the long-tailed tit on this page, including its call. Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round.
Is the long-tailed tit endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the long-tailed tit as “least concern”.
What family does the long-tailed tit belong to?
The long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) belongs to the family Aegithalidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Aegithalos caudatus - Long-tailed Tit by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Vandœuvres, Genève, Genève, Switzerland by Olivier Grimm – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Coe Fen, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Bergschenhoek, Lansingerland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands by Jochem verweij – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Greater Bilbao (near Getxo), Bizkaia, Euskadi, Spain by Borja – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q170831 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Long-tailed tit – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Rhododendrites – CC BY-SA 4.0