Long-tailed tit

Long-tailed tit
A long-tailed tit in Lancashire, United Kingdom
Calls recorded in Cambridgeshire
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Aegithalos caudatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103871923A87471081. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103871923A87471081.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (2020). IOC World Bird List. v10.2. doi:10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.