#1441 · 🐦 birds

Oak Titmouse

🇳🇱 Grijze Mees ·Baeolophus inornatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

The oak titmouse ( Baeolophus inornatus ) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. The American Ornithologists' Union split the plain titmouse into the oak titmouse and the juniper titmouse in 1996, due to distinct differences in song, preferred habitat, and genetic makeup.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 20,007iNaturalist observations
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.
20,007 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by William Gambel in 1842 (184 years ago).