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Tufted Titmouse Plucking a Raccoon

By May 20, 2011 8 comments

There are many tales of a Tufted Titmouse taking hair from humans to use as nest-lining material.  Watching a titmouse take hairs from a human is something I have always longed to see but I never considered how cool it might be to see a titmouse take hair from another creature.  Fortunately, a pair of [...]

What is a Titmouse?

By September 21, 2006 31 comments

Few American birds have the publicity problems of the titmouse. Even though they are numerous, if not downright gregarious throughout most of their range, despite the fact that the Tufted Titmouse is consistently one of the top ten most frequently reported species in the Great Backyard Bird Count, titmice lack the popularity of other common [...]