Willow Tit

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WildFlower

Lion

I was just writing a comment that this looks like a willow tit - Poecile montanus. It seems to have paler wings.
http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/categories/articleitem.asp?cate=23&topic=119&item=486 Posted 11 years ago, modified 11 years ago
1. Jivko Nakev
  
  Lion
  
  Hey, WildFlower, this is a great comparison chart. I browsed the net but didn't manage to find such. I decided it is a Marsh Tit based on the distribution maps shown in the Bulgarian book The birds on the Balkan peninsula - Birds identifier. I captured it near the Topolnitza dam, which looks to be outside the aerial of P.montanus. But the maps are too small and hence not too accurate. So I consider you are right.
  Thanks again.
  Posted 11 years ago

The Willow tit

The willow tit is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and northern Asia. 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.

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Similar species: Perching Birds

Species identified by Jivko Nakev