Penduline Tit

Remiz pendulinus (Linnaeus, 1758) DT PENTI 14900
Family: Passeriformes > Remizidae

Penduline Tit, Philip Croft

Penduline Tit is a scarce visitor to Britain, with the number of records in the low hundreds.

Several breeding season records, which have included reports of lone males constructing nests, led to hopes of breeding but were ultimately disappointing. Bird ringing has shown that at least some individuals originate in Scandinavia.

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Identification

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Status and Trends

Population size and trends and patterns of distribution based on BTO surveys and atlases with data collected by BTO volunteers.

CONSERVATION STATUS

This species can be found on the following statutory and conservation listings and schedules.

POPULATION SIZE

We have no population estimates for this scarce species.

DISTRIBUTION

This species is a rare vagrant and was recorded during Bird Atlas 2007–11 as shown on the map. In recent years most records have been in counties south of a line from the Severn to the Wash.

Occupied 10-km squares in UK

European Distribution Map

European Breeding Bird Atlas 2

DISTRIBUTION CHANGE

This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution change.

SEASONALITY

Penduline Tit is a scarce migrant, sometimes encountered in winter.

Weekly occurence of Penduline Tit from BirdTrack
Weekly occurrence patterns (shaded cells) and reporting rates (vertical bars) based on BirdTrack data. Reporting rates give the likelihood of encountering the species each week.

Movement

Information about movement and migration based on online bird portals (e.g. BirdTrack), Ringing schemes and tracking studies.

RINGING RECOVERIES

View a summary of recoveries in the Online Ringing Report.

Foreign locations of birds ringed or recovered in Britain & Ireland

Foreign locations of Penduline Tit ringed or recovered in Britain & Ireland
Encountered in: Winter (Nov-Feb); Spring (Mar-Apr); Summer (May-Jul); Autumn (Aug-Oct)

Biology

Lifecycle and body size information about Penduline Tit, including statistics on nesting, eggs and lifespan based on BTO ringing and nest recording data.

PRODUCTIVITY & NESTING

Sample sizes are too small to report Productivity and Nesting statistics for this species.

BIOMETRICS

Sample sizes are too small to report Biometrics for this species.

Feather measurements and photos on featherbase

CODES & CLASSIFICATION

For information in another language (where available) click on a linked name

Welsh: Titw Pendil
Catalan: teixidor eurasiàtic
Czech: moudivlácek lužní
Danish: Pungmejse
Dutch: Buidelmees
Estonian: kukkurtihane
Finnish: pussitiainen
French: Rémiz penduline
German: Beutelmeise
Hungarian: függocinege
Icelandic: Pungmeisa
Italian: Pendolino
Latvian: somzilite
Lithuanian: eurazine remeza
Norwegian: Pungmeis
Polish: remiz (zwyczajny)
Portuguese: chapim-de-mascarilha
Slovak: kúdelnícka lužná
Slovenian: plašica
Spanish: Pájaro moscón europeo
Swedish: pungmes

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