Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)

Tufted Titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor


The Tufted Titmouse is a friendly passerine bird with a triangular crested head, large black eyes, a blue-gray back, a white face and underneath, and slender tail feathers. The black bill of the Tufted Titmouse is short and its legs and feet are gray. The base of the bill is black as well as the tips of the flight feathers.

Tufted Titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor


This individual was attracted by sunflower seeds and peanuts.

Tufted Titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor

New Marlborough, MA
2009-10-29

The titmice compete with downy woodpeckers for foods, and easily expelled from the site by them.

Other Paridae species:

Oak Titmouse
Baeolophus inornatus

Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
Poecile rufescens