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title: "Long-tailed Tit"
description: "Aegithalos caudatus — Uccelli. The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) is a common bird species belonging to the bushtit family found throughout Eurasia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/long-tailed-tit
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Long-tailed Tit

> Aegithalos caudatus — Uccelli. The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) is a common bird species belonging to the bushtit family found throughout Eurasia.

- Scientific name: *Aegithalos caudatus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `urban` (Città e giardini)
- iNaturalist observations: 81843
- Wikidata: [Q170831](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170831)
- iNaturalist taxon: [7278](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/7278)

## Names

- en: Long-tailed Tit
- de: Schwanzmeise
- es: Mito
- fr: Orite à longue queue
- pt: Chapim-rabilongo
- pl: Raniuszek zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

RU (20679), GB (11139), DE (5550), FR (5480), ES (4747), IT (4212), JP (2044), AT (1975), UA (1253), PT (1222), CZ (1138), KR (1057)

## Summary

The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) is a common bird species belonging to the bushtit family found throughout Eurasia. An insectivore, it inhabits deciduous and mixed woodlands as well as scrub, heathland, farmland, parks and gardens. The plumage of this small long-tailed bird is predominantly black and white with varying amounts of pink and grey. Northern subspecies are paler and have completely white heads, lacking the large dark eyebrows of southern populations. It is a social bird that forms compact family flocks of six to seventeen individuals outside of the breeding season, when…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-tailed_tit

## Photo

![Long-tailed Tit](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/long-tailed-tit/medium.jpg)

Photo: Tero Linjama · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197688589

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/long-tailed-tit?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).