Bird school

• Brambling
• Blue tit
• Bullfinch
• Blackbird
• Barn swallow
• Bohemian waxwing
• Black woodpecker
• Black redstart
• Blackcap
• Chaffinch
• Chiffchaff
• Crow
• Coal tit
• Crested tit
• Common swift
• Common treecreeper
• Dunnock
• Fieldfare
• Greenfinch
• Goldfinch
• Greater woodpecker
• Garden warbler
• Great tit
• Green woodpecker
• House martin
• House sparrow
• Hawfinch
• Jackdaw
• Linnet
• Long-tailed tit
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser spotted woodpecker
• Marsh tit
• Magpie
• Mistle thrush
• Nightingale
• Nuthatch
• Pheasant
• Pied flycatcher
• Redpoll
• Rook
• Redstart
• Robin
• Spotted flycatcher
• Siskin
• Starling
• Song thrush
• Yellowhammer
• Winter wren
• Willow
• Tree sparrow
• Wood pigeon
• White wagtail
• Willow tit
• Whitethroat

The long-tailed tit

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The male

Throughout the summer and autumn the long-tailed tits stay close in family groupings. They sleep together in a long row on a branch. They are adorable to behold and are often very unafraid of humans.

Appearance
Has a very long tail and an otherwise chubby, small body with a short beak. The head and under frame are white with a black back and tail, and slightly pink shoulders.

Similar bird
A white ball of down with a long, thin tail, a dark back and dark back – unmistakable!

Sounds and song
The call is a piercing sound, and switches to humming or clicking sounds. The song sounds like that of the blue tit but of a higher pitch.

Food and bird tables
Rarely seen at the bird table.
Will eat only insects, larvae and spiders. If they visit bird tables they do so for the tallow pellets.

The nest and hollows
This bird builds a large, oblong ball shaped nest high in a fork, usually in a birch or alder. The nest is dressed with lichen or pieces of birch-bark. Everything is kept together with spider webs. The inside is lined with thousands of feathers.