Aegithalos caudatus
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) is a common bird species belonging to the bushtit family found throughout Eurasia. An insectivore, it inhabits deciduous and mixed woodlands as well as scrub, heathland, farmland, parks and gardens. The plumage of this small long-tailed bird is predominantly black and white with varying amounts of pink and grey. Northern subspecies are paler and have completely white heads, lacking the large dark eyebrows of southern populations. It is a social bird that forms compact family flocks of six to seventeen individuals outside of the breeding season, when these flocks break up. It has a strong preference for nesting in scrub areas and often builds its nest in thorny bushes less than 3 metres (10 feet) above the ground.
The long-tailed tit was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Parus caudatus. The current genus name Aegithalos was a term used by Aristotle for some European tits, including the long-tailed tit. The specific epithet caudatus is the Latin word for "tailed". Linnaeus did not invent this... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manchester | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Turin | 🇮🇹 Italy | |
| 3 | Milan | 🇮🇹 Italy | |
| 4 | Seoul | 🇰🇷 South Korea | |
| 5 | Birmingham | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 6 | Daejeon | 🇰🇷 South Korea | |
| 7 | Sendai | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 8 | London | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 9 | Gwangju | 🇰🇷 South Korea | |
| 10 | Budapest | 🇭🇺 Hungary |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Wildlife Park | 🇨🇳 China |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Tit sighting in Prague on a given day, based on 1,753 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 20th most-seen of the 145 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Tit in Prague on a given day, against about 10% in June and July, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Long-tailed Tit sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
16th of 68
Of the 68 cities where we can rate Long-tailed Tit sightings, Prague ranks 16th at about 30%. The best odds are in Manchester (United Kingdom, about 60%), Turin (Italy, about 60%) and Milan (Italy, about 60%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Long-tailed Tit that you can see in Prague (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Great Tit (about 90%), Eurasian Magpie (about 90%) and Blue Tit (about 80%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Long-tailed Tit is recorded against all the birds logged in Prague (1,753 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.
