Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Long-tailed Tit
Aegithalos caudatus
- langka
- 55 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Half body, half tail. Travels in chattering family flocks that look like flying lollipops.
- Populasi
- Very large and stable global population, likely in the tens of millions of mature individuals
- Habitat
- Deciduous and mixed woodland, scrub, hedgerows, heathland edges (favoring thorny bushes under ~3m for nesting), farmland, parks, and gardens; generally scarce in pure conifer forest
- Fakta menarik
- A Long-tailed Tit's domed nest is an elastic pouch of moss, lichen, and spider silk lined with over 2,000 downy feathers and built from thousands of pieces of material — it stretches as the growing brood inside gets bigger.
- Sebaran
- Widespread across the temperate Palearctic, from Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia through continental Europe and the Mediterranean, across Russia and central Asia to China, Korea, and Japan
- Makanan
- Almost entirely insectivorous year-round, gleaning small arthropods (especially moth and butterfly eggs/larvae, aphids, and spiders) from foliage; supplements with seeds in autumn/winter and visits garden feeders (suet/fat)
- Ukuran
- 0,14 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,18 m
- Masa hidup
- 2 tahun
