Birdwatching - 1673 🐦

🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus)

📚 Aegithalos (Greek): tit
📚 caudatus (lat.): tailed

These photos show a young bird. Pay attention to the color of the head and eyelids. As you can see, the young have, so to speak, brown stripes on their heads. As well as dark red eyelids. In adults, the head is completely white, if it is of course the northern subspecies, the rest of the subspecies have black stripes above the eyes. And the color of the eyelids is yellow.

This young charm flew from branch to branch along with adult birds. And not the fact that it was the parents. It is likely that these could be older brothers or sisters, or couples who did not have their own babies, and they looked after the fledglings of another couple.