#1278 · 🐦 birds

Tufted Titmouse

🇳🇱 Tweekleurige Mees ·Baeolophus bicolor

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The tufted titmouse ( Baeolophus bicolor ) is a small songbird from North America, a species in the tit and chickadee family (Paridae). The black-crested titmouse, found from central and southern Texas southward, was included as a subspecies, but now is considered a separate species, (Baeolophus atricristatus) .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 98,989iNaturalist observations
weight 1.9 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
98,989 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 2 g.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).