Crested Tit

What the Crested Tit sounds like

Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Aberrant, begging call, call · Genêts, Manche, Normandie, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Begging call · Arrondissement of Avranches (near Jullouville), Manche, Normandie, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Call, song · Arrondissement de Saint-Malo (near Cancale), Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Crested Tit

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Crested Tit

The map shades 39 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Afghanistan.

About the Crested Tit

The crested tit or European crested tit is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder in coniferous forests throughout central and northern Europe and in deciduous woodland in France and the Iberian Peninsula. In Great Britain, it is mainly restricted to the ancient pinewoods of Inverness and Strathspey in Scotland, and rarely strays far from its haunts. A few vagrant crested tits have been seen in England. It is resident, and most individuals do not migrate.

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Easily confused with

Grey-crested TitLophophanes dichrousThe grey-crested tit is a species of bird in the family Paridae.