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🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus)

• Aegithalos (Greek): tit
• caudatus (lat.): tailed

If birds were soft toys, this bird would be a favorite. tiny body (weighs about the same as a teaspoon of sugar!), and a tail twice as long. From a distance, it looks like a white fluffy ball with a branch sticking out. This shape has earned it the nickname "long-tailed tit", although it is not a true tit - more like an eccentric cousin.

These birds are the embodiment of collectivism. They live in flocks of several individuals, sleep together, tightly pressed together, and even feed chicks together, and this applies not only to their relatives, but also to other couples.