Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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ShrublandDomed nestTiny · 5 g

Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus), photo 1 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus), photo 2 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus), photo 3 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus), photo 4 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus), photo 5 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus), photo 6 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus), photo 7 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Mouse-colored Penduline Tit sounds like

Sonogram of the Mouse-colored Penduline Tit: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Frank shirima · Call · Kudu Hills,Mererani, Simanjiro, Manyara Region, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Mouse-colored Penduline Tit

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

Where to see the Mouse-colored Penduline Tit

Regular range

The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Kenya Ethiopia Tanzania Uganda Somalia South Sudan

About the Mouse-colored Penduline Tit

The mouse-coloured penduline tit or mouse-colored penduline tit is a species of bird in the family Remizidae. At 8 cm (3.1 in) in length, it is one of the two shortest birds native to Africa, alongside the tit hylia.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Yellow Penduline TitAnthoscopus parvulusThe yellow penduline tit is around 8 cm (3.1 in) in overall length and weighs 6–8 g (0.21–0.28 oz). Forest Penduline TitAnthoscopus flavifronsThe forest penduline tit is a species of bird in the family Remizidae.

Sennar Penduline TitAnthoscopus punctifronsThe Sennar penduline tit is a species of bird in the family Remizidae, the most northerly member of the genus Anthoscopus.

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