Remiz pendulinus
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
The Eurasian penduline tit or European penduline tit (Remiz pendulinus) is a passerine bird of the genus Remiz. It is relatively widespread throughout the western Palearctic. It is migratory in the northern part of its range but resident in the southern part.
The breeding range in Western Europe experienced an expansion during the 1980s and 1990s. This was accompanied by an expansion of the species' winter range and reached as far south as northern Morocco. It builds an elaborate hanging nest, formerly used in Central Europe as children's slippers.
The Eurasian penduline tit was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacilla pedulinus. It is now placed in the genus Remiz that was introduced in 1819 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki. The genus name Remiz is the Polish word for the Eurasian penduline tit. The specific epithet is from Latin pendulus meaning "pendant" or "hanging down", referring to the nest.
Four subspecies are recognised: Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hortobágy National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 2 | Kiskunság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 3 | Biebrza National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 4 | Fertő-Hanság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 5 | Białowieża National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 6 | Monfragüe National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 7 | Doñana National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 8 | Camargue | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 9 | Sierra Nevada National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 10 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 11 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 12 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novosibirsk | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 2 | Kazan | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 3 | Kyiv | 🇺🇦 Ukraine | |
| 4 | Antalya | 🇹🇷 Turkey | |
| 5 | Minsk | 🇧🇾 Belarus | |
| 6 | Yerevan | 🇦🇲 Armenia | |
| 7 | Bucharest | 🇷🇴 Romania | |
| 8 | Madrid | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 9 | Nizhny Novgorod | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 10 | Yekaterinburg | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ogród Zoologiczny w Katowicach | 🇵🇱 Poland |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a European Penduline Tit sighting in Kyiv on a given day, based on 114 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 58th most-seen of the 164 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April–May and August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a European Penduline Tit in Kyiv on a given day, against under 5% in October to January, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most European Penduline Tit sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 26 cities where we can rate European Penduline Tit sightings, Kyiv ranks 3rd at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Novosibirsk (Russia, about 10%) and Kazan (Russia, about 10%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the European Penduline Tit that you can see in Kyiv (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Hooded Crow (about 90%), Great Tit (about 90%) and Eurasian Magpie (about 70%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the European Penduline Tit is recorded against all the birds logged in Kyiv (114 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
