>> GENERAL >>>>>
– smaller than House Sparrow
– mainly non-migratory
– only short distance dispersal of juveniles
>> VISUAL ID >>>>>
– birds in flight not yet photographed –
>> ACOUSTIC ID >>>>>
– flight call a short monophonic upslur
– main energy between 7-8kHz
– narrowly spaced harmonics -> Marsh Tit
– inflection variable
– usually uttered as short explosive series
– difficult to distinguish from calls of other tit species
Willow Tit Poecile montanus salicarius, call in flight
BIF2666, 06/01/2018, Profen, Germany, Patrick Franke
Willow Tit Poecile montanus salicarius, call in flight
BIF2667, 06/01/2018, Profen, Germany, Patrick Franke
Willow Tit Poecile montanus salicarius, call in flight
BIF2668, 06/01/2018, Profen, Germany, Patrick Franke
Willow Tit Poecile montanus salicarius, call in flight
BIF2669, 06/01/2018, Profen, Germany, Patrick Franke
Willow Tit Poecile montanus salicarius, call in flight
BIF2670, 06/01/2018, Profen, Germany, Patrick Franke
Willow Tit Poecile montanus salicarius, call in flight
BIF2671, 06/01/2018, Profen, Germany, Patrick Franke
Willow Tit Poecile montanus salicarius, call in flight
BIF2672, 06/01/2018, Profen, Germany, Patrick Franke
Willow Tit Poecile montanus salicarius, call in flight
BIF2673, 06/01/2018, Profen, Germany, Patrick Franke
>> COMPARISON SPECIES >>>>>
Azure Tit (a) (v)
African Blue Tit (a) (v)
Eurasian Blue Tit (a) (v)
Great Tit (a) (v)
Cinereous Tit (a) (v)
European Crested Tit (v)
Coal Tit (a) (v)
Sombre Tit (a) (v)
Marsh Tit (a) (v)
Caspian Tit (a) (v)
Eurasian Nuthatch (a)
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