#0594 · 🐦 birds
Long-tailed Tit
🇳🇱 Staartmees ·Aegithalos caudatus
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what is it?
The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit ( Aegithalos caudatus ), occasionally referred to as the silver-throated tit or silver-throated dasher, is a common bird found throughout Europe and Asia. The genus name Aegithalos was a term used by Aristotle for some European tits, including the long-tailed tit. The specific caudatus is Latin and is derived from cauda , "tail".
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 984 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 83,546 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Long-tailed Tit
- Nederlands
- Staartmees
- scientific name
- Aegithalos caudatus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Aegithalidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 984
- sightings in Europe
- 61,705
- sightings worldwide
- 83,546
- GBIF records in NL
- 506,955
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Aegithalidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 7278, Wikidata Q170831, GBIF 2495000, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.