Species of bird in Europe and Asia
Long-tailed tit
A long-tailed tit in Lancashire , United Kingdom
Calls recorded in Cambridgeshire
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Aegithalidae
Genus:
Aegithalos
Species:
A. caudatus
Binomial name
Aegithalos caudatus
Subspecies[ 2]
A. c. caudatus – (Linnaeus, 1758)
A. c. rosaceus – Mathews, 1938
A. c. europaeus – (Hermann, 1804)
A. c. aremoricus – Whistler, 1929
A. c. taiti – Ingram, W, 1913
A. c. irbii – (Sharpe & Dresser, 1871)
A. c. italiae – Jourdain, 1910
A. c. siculus – (Whitaker, 1901)
A. c. macedonicus – (Salvadori & Dresser, 1892)
A. c. tephronotus – (Gunther, 1865)
A. c. tauricus – (Menzbier, 1903)
A. c. major – (Radde, 1884)
A. c. alpinus – (Hablizl, 1783)
A. c. passekii – (Zarudny, 1904)
A. c. trivirgatus – (Temminck & Schlegel, 1848)
A. c. kiusiuensis – Kuroda, Nagamichi, 1923
A. c. magnus – (Clark, AH, 1907)
Range of A. caudatus Resident
Non-breeding
Synonyms
Parus caudatus Linnaeus, 1758
The long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus ), also named long-tailed bushtit , is a common bird found throughout Europe and the Palearctic . The genus name Aegithalos was a term used by Aristotle for some European tits, including the long-tailed tit.