Birdwatching - 1907 🐦

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

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

These embodiments of charm are not so easy to come across in the summer. They, like everyone else, are busy feeding and educating their children. And around mid-July, you can see teenagers who follow their parents everywhere and learn to eat and catch insects on their own.

Teenagers are easy to distinguish from adults. They still have baby plumage, namely dark brown spots on the head and lower body, as well as eyelids of the same color. As they grow older, the eyelids will turn yellow and the head and underparts will be completely white, but this depends on the subspecies.