🦉 The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus)
📚 Aegithalos (Greek): tit
📚 caudatus (lat.): tailed
Real charm!
These cute white balls with a long tail will not leave you indifferent when you meet them in the forest.
They live in small family flocks, and live very friendly. Moreover, not only to each other, but also to other types of birds. It is not surprising that in autumn they participate in mixed bird flocks, they are very social.
I was very surprised by the fact that older children help their parents build new nests for the second clutch, as well as feed their younger brothers and sisters.
Oh yes, in addition to their children, they can be helped in this by, so to speak, the "friends" of the couple, who for some reason were left without a nest or fledglings.
