Features
Shima-Enaga is one of my favorite birds on our planet, and they are a sweetheart looking “Bonnie of a Bird,” and they have a uniquely all-white face and is a sub-species of the long-tailed bushtit. The Shima-Enaga occur mostly in Hokkaido, Japan. But they inhabit the entire Paleatrictic realm. The long-tailed tit is sometimes referred to as the silver-throated tit or silver-throated dasher. The long-tailed tit was first classified as a tit of the Parus group. The Parus has been split from the Aegithalidae nd becoming a distinct family containing three sub-group families.
Eggs
Long-tailed Tits typically lay a single clutch of eggs in March and April in a beautifully intricate domed nest, constructed of lichen and cobwebs, and lined with up to 1,500 feathers. This species has a co-operative breeding strategy, with younger birds helping breeding pairs to rear chicks. Males and females look alike
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- Size: 14 cm head to tail
- 8g
- 16 – 19 cm
- 8 - 12 per brood
- Insects, peanuts, mealworms, berries and suet
- Nesting: Woven spider webs into balls of feathers, moss and lichen.
