Bird of the Month: Tufted titmouse. Description: This small gray bird is easily identified by the crest on the top of its head, along with its large black eyes and round bill. Its wings and back are ...

PEORIA — In a rare confrontation at a backyard feeder, a nut-gobbling groundhog bristled at the sudden arrival of a nervy freeloader. A tufted titmouse had just landed on the chubby rodent’s tail to ...

Thud! Thud! Thud! (pause) Thud! Thud! What in the world is that noise? I keep hearing the thuds over and over again coming from my backyard. Quickly investigating, I discover a small Tufted Titmouse ...

The tufted titmouse is one of the bounciest and brightest little birds that will visit your yard. The word "titmouse" is derived from an Old Icelandic word, "tittr", which means "something small." ...

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A little know-how and insight changes the game of birding — and has been known to offer more than a passing surge of joy. In fact, scientific evidence abounds to show that the happiness birds bring ...

Our tufted titmouse saga continues. I don’t have all of the area Christmas Bird Count results, yet, but from the several I do have from the Audubon website, it seems that the titmouse recovery in this ...

If not for tufted titmice, my bird-feeding stations would be considerably less interesting. So, too, I assume, would yours. White-breasted nuthatches, chickadees, goldfinches, house finches, downy, ...

Looks like: The tufted titmouse has a uniform pale gray body, white underbelly, black forehead and orange-buff flanks. The short, pointed crest and a short, stout bill help identify titmice even in ...

In Bob Janssen's 1987 book "Birds of Minnesota" Tufted Titmouse is shown on a range map as a bird limited in Minnesota range to our far southeastern corner. Individuals occasionally were seen in other ...