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Tufted Titmouse
Description: The Tufted Titmouse is often seen in small mixed flocks of Chickadees along with Nuthatches and small Woodpeckers at feeders. It is a very social bird but not quite as tame as the chickadee. This small bird often hangs upside down clinging to the bark of trees and picks insects and spiders from under leafs and twig. The Tufted Titmouse breeds from eastern Nebraska, Michigan and Maine north to Ontario and south to northeastern Mexico, Texas, the Gulf Coast and central Florida.
Other Names: None
Color: The Tufted Titmouse has a dark gray head and crest and a prominent black eye-ring surrounding the black eye that makes the eye look particularly large for this small bird. The upper parts are gray, with slightly darker gray flight feathers. The face and under parts are white with reddish-brown flanks and its short, black, very powerful bill is used to crack seeds and open snail shells. It is the largest of the Titmice.
Sound: The Tufted Titmouse's song is a loud, whistled "peter-peter-peter" and it's call is scratchy, like the chickadee "tsee-day-day-day", listen:
Preferred Environment: The Tufted Titmouse favors habitats including moist or swampy woodlands and urban shade trees. They are social have and accustomed to people so they’re comfortable living in parks and yards.
Nesting Habits: Tufted Titmice construct their nest in a hole in a tree out of leaves, moss, dried grass, hair, strips of bark, and line it with hair or similar materials. It’s monogamous and mates for life.
Food Preference: The Tufted Titmouse feeds on black-oil sunflower, striped sunflower, safflower, shelled peanuts and suet.
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How to Attract the Tufted Titmouse
The Tufted Titmouse are cavity nesters that construct their nest in an old woodpecker hole or cavity in a tree out of leaves, moss, dried grass, hair, strips of bark, and line it with hair or similar materials. They're monogamous and mate for life. They feed primarily on seeds but they do eat insects. At the feeder, the Tufted Titmouse feeds on black-oil sunflower, striped sunflower, safflower, shelled peanuts and suet. Use all your feeders that hold seeds, nuts, or suet. Be sure to try suet feeders, peanut feeders and tube feeders along with your platform feeders.
Suggested Tufted Titmouse Feeders
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