Tufted Titmouse

Baeolophus bicolor

OrderPasseriformes

FamilyParidae

HabitatDeciduous and mixed woods, well-treed suburbs

SeasonYear-round resident in East and Central Texas

LocationW.G. Jones State Forest, Texas, Montgomery County, Texas

Size6 in

DietInsects and seeds; caches food for winter

ConservationLeast Concern

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This Tufted Titmouse posed just long enough at W.G. Jones State Forest.

About the Tufted Titmouse

A gray, crested songbird with big black eyes and peachy flanks, whistling peter-peter-peter through the canopy and bossing the feeder line.

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