Remiz pendulinus
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
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 |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a European Penduline Tit sighting in Fertő-Hanság National Park on a given day, based on 166 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 86th most-seen of the 207 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a European Penduline Tit in Fertő-Hanság National Park on a given day, against about 10% in April–May, August–September and November–February, 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.
4th of 12
Of the 12 parks where we can rate European Penduline Tit sightings, Fertő-Hanság National Park ranks 4th at about 20%. The best odds are in Hortobágy National Park (Hungary, about 40%), Kiskunság National Park (Hungary, about 30%) and Biebrza National Park (Poland, about 20%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the European Penduline Tit that you can see in Fertő-Hanság National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are European Starling (about 60%), White Wagtail (about 60%) and Barn Swallow (about 60%), 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 Fertő-Hanság National Park (166 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
