The longtailed tit has a very long tail, an elegant appearance and the ability to build complex nests. This bird is widespread, including in Eurasia. Most often it can be found in the forest, but sometimes it flies into city parks.
What does a longtailed tint look like
Tits belong to the detachment of sparrows, which automatically means small sizes. The body length of this blue is only 12-15 centimeters, of which most of the tail occupies most. The “tail” can reach almost 11 centimeters. The maximum mass of an adult bird is only nine grams.
Featers of the longstroke towstone are very soft and fluffy. At a certain look, this bird may seem almost even ball, from which a long tail sticks out. Also, its shape resembles a Russian folk spoon for spill, for example, soup. From this similarity, the longtailed tit has the second, unofficial one, the name is illegal. In fact, such tits have even more names. Given all local dialects and features, bird names can be gained about two dozen.
Longtailed tit is the owner of a beautiful outfit. Three colors reign in her plumage: white, black and slightly pink, which harmoniously add each other. There are three clear color areas on feathers. So, the head, neck and almost the entire lower body are white, the sides and back have a pinkish tint. The tail and wings are painted in a mixture of black, white and gray tones.
Longtailed tint eats bread
Habitat and lifestyle
A longtailed tit lives in deciduous and mixed forests, gardens, parks, thickets along the banks of rivers, shrubs. It inhabit many European territories, small Asia, China, Korea, Japan. In Eurasia, it is most widely represented in the Siberian region.
Favorite places of nesting of longtailed tits are hardtoreach thickets of willow or dense birch. Often the nest is built in a dense shrub near the reservoir. Longtailed tit is an excellent nests builder.
The nest of this bird is a design of an eggshaped shape with the upper location of the Letka (entrance). The main material for the construction is moss, but the main feature is its strengthening using a web or licentious cocoons of insects. Thanks to, such a “braid” of the walls of the nests are very thick and warm. At the end of the construction, the longtailed tit is overwhelming the nest with small pieces of bark and lichen, and inside it creates a soft litter of feathers.
Owls are usually seen in groups of 8-20 birds, and these rapidly moving flocks give themselves out characteristic contact sounds. Invitingly the cry of birds a sharp “Tsurp”, repeated several times. When to hear it, it is easily remembered, and often hearing chirping-this is the first sign that a small group of ilvens is located somewhere nearby.
Food of longtailed tits
A longtailed tit prefers to eat live food, although plant. All kinds of insects, which the bird are looking for, masterfully taking any poses become classic treats. Like many other tits, it easily hangs upside down, examining the lower side of the leaves. The longtailed tit is perfectly oriented even in thick foliage, looking for insects or their larvae.
The main part of the diet of birds are aphids, leaf blocks, caterpillars of butterflies. This also includes some bugs, for example, weevils. In the transitional seasons and winter, the tit is eaten seeds, plant fruits. The largest amount of food is necessary for bird during feeding the chicks. It is estimated that the longtailed tits bring food to the chicks up to 350 times a day. During this period, they destroy the maximum number of insects, among which there are agricultural pests.
The mating season of the Owls
Birds begin to multiply earlier than other species of tits. The construction of a complex domeshaped nest begins at the end of February. They placed nests high in the fork in a tree or in prickly shrubs, such as hawthorn. The nest is made of moss out of the moss, weave it with a web and animal hair, mask from the outside with lichens and lifted the bottom with feathers.
It takes up to three weeks to build a nest at the beginning of the reproduction season. The nests built at the end of the reproduction season are ready for eggs in a week. Nun birds that help to grow young animals join a propagating female. It can be mothers after unsuccessful egg laying, possibly related to the couple.
