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Bushtit
Psaltriparus minimus
Interesting and Fun Facts: Bushtits other than the parents feed the nestlings. Family members sleep together in the complex nest of lichen and spider webs during breeding, but they all leave the nest after the young fledge, and sleep on branches.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Aegithalidae
Genus: Psaltriparus |
Audio for Species
Call
Song
from Macaulay Library |
Species Related Links
Additional Bushtit Pictures
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Description
Length: 2.8-3.1 in (7-8 cm) Weight: 0.1-0.2 oz (4-6 g) Wing length: 1.73-2.05 in (4.4-5.2 cm )
The male is pale gray-brown upperparts, with whitish underparts, and a long gray tail, and dark eyes. The female is light brown, with a darker brown head, and yellow eyes.
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Habitat, Range, and Feeding
The Bushtit prefers open mixed woodland with some evergreens or underbrushin forested montains to arid brushlands.
Their nest is an elaborate hanging nest made of spider webs, lichen and other plant material; insulated with feathers, fur or other soft plant material. The clutch size is 4 to 10 eggs, that are white.
Their diet is insects, spiders, and some seeds.
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