A photo of a Willow Tit (Poecile montanus)
Willow Tit

Willow Tit

Poecile montanus

The willow tit (Poecile montanus) is a passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and across the Palearctic. The plumage is grey-brown and off-white with a black cap and bib. It is more of a conifer specialist than the closely related marsh tit, which explains it breeding much further north. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate. The willow tit is distinguished from the marsh tit by a sooty brown instead of a glossy blue black cap; the general colour is otherwise similar, though the under parts are more buff and the flanks distinctly more rufous; the pale buff edgings to the secondaries form a light patch on the closed wing. The feathers of the crown and the black bib under the bill are longer, but this is not an easily noticed character. However, the more graduated tail (not square) shows distinctly when spread. The commonest call is a nasal zee, zee, zee, but the notes of the bird evidently vary considerably. Occasionally a double note, ipsee, ipsee, is repeated four or five times.
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Lee Jones
Sunday 26 Mar 2023 - 2:13pm
United Kingdom
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Tom Stanier
Sunday 26 Mar 2023 - 11:30am
United Kingdom
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Kolja Bodendieck
Sunday 26 Mar 2023 - 9:04am
Germany
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Nikki Thorne
Saturday 25 Mar 2023 - 1:35pm
United Kingdom
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