Let’s review the field marks of the tufted titmouse. It is a small, gray bird with a tufted crest. The forehead (just above the bill) is black. The sides of the body are a rusty color up to the wing.

People often ask me what the pretty yellow birds in their yard are (they’re goldfinches). Others inquire about the red ones (house finches, or as the poets and old-timers like to call them, linnets).

Titmice and chickadees, the only two North American members of the family Paridae, are among our most common yard birds. True, sometimes, familiarity breeds contempt; but paying close attention to ...

The clearest sign of California spring is the singing of titmice. It starts early here, as does the season. I often hear the first few tentative attempts in December. In January and February, their ...

This question has been bothering me for quite a while and now I finally have a chance to ask it. When I have more than one tufted titmouse on my feeder, do I have titmice or titmouses? I need to know.

We’ve had many reports of juniper titmice showing up at feeders around Santa Fe lately. Sometimes we start to see more titmice at feeders once nesting has wrapped up. The juniper titmouse does not ...

A new paper documents an unusual behavior among tufted titmice and their closest bird kin. A bird will land on an unsuspecting mammal and, cautiously and stealthily, pluck out some of its hair. Dozens ...