Penduline Tits

Mouse-colored Penduline Tit

Anthoscopus musculus

The Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus) is a 5.2 g scrub bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

Penduline Tits

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

5.2 g

Habitat

Shrubland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

6

Recorded in Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, S. Sudan.

Where to see it: Water hole and forest near Rajaf (South Sudan); Awash NP · southern section (Ethiopia); Awash NP (Please use more specific hotspot) (Ethiopia); Auto selected 5.28882, 35.82904 (South Sudan); Abaarso, Somaliland (Somalia).

Photo: (c) Tom Heijnen, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist