Oak Titmouse

Baeolophus inornatusOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Titmice and Chickadees (Paridae)

Codes: Common Name: OATI Scientific Name: BAEINO ITIS Taxonomic No.: 554140

Breeding Location:

Forest edge

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Stable

Egg Color:

White, sometimes with red brown spots

Number of Eggs:

6 - 8

Incubation Days:

14 - 16

Egg Incubator:

Female

Nest Material:

Grass and moss lined with bark, feathers, and hair.

Migration:

Nonmigratory

General

Oak Titmouse: Medium-sized titmouse with pale, brown-tinged gray upperparts and paler face and underparts. Sexes are similar. Juvenile has shorter crest.

Range and Habitat

Oak Titmouse: Resident from southern Oregon south to Baja California. Preferred habitats include live oaks and deciduous growth, including oak woodlands, streamside cottonwoods, forest edges, and oak-juniper woodlands.

Breeding and Nesting

Oak Titmouse: Six to eight white eggs, sometimes with red brown spots, are laid in a tree cavity, fence-post hole, or crevice in an old building, stuffed with grass, fur, and some feathers. Incubation ranges from 14 to 16 days and is carried out by the female.

Foraging and Feeding

Oak Titmouse: Eats a variety of seeds, including acorns, and insects, which it gleans from trunks, branches, and foliage. May cling beneath branches or cones to pick off food; holds large seeds between its feet and pounds them open with jackhammer-like raps with its bill.

Readily Eats

Suet, Sunflower Seed

Vocalization

Oak Titmouse: Emits a harsh, fussy "see-dee-dee" or "chick-a-dee-dee."

Similar Species

Oak Titmouse: Juniper Titmouse is slightly larger, paler gray overall, and has a different voice.

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Oak Titmouse

Oak Titmouse: Medium-sized titmouse with pale, brown-tinged gray upperparts and paler face and underparts. The bill is small and black, and legs and feet are gray. Weak, fluttering flight. A recently formed species, and along with the Juniper Titmouse, was known as the Plain Titmouse until 1996.

● Song: "see-dee-dee", "chick-a-dee-dee"

● Foraging & Feeding: Oak Titmouse: Eats a variety of seeds, including acorns, and insects, which it gleans from trunks, branches, and foliage. May cling beneath branches or cones to pick off food; holds large seeds between its feet and pounds them open with jackhammer-like raps with its bill.

● Breeding & nesting: Oak Titmouse: Six to eight white eggs, sometimes with red brown spots, are laid in a tree cavity, fence-post hole, or crevice in an old building, stuffed with grass, fur, and some feathers. Incubation ranges from 14 to 16 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Oak Titmouse: Juniper Titmouse is slightly larger, paler gray overall, and has a different voice.

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats.

● Range & Habitat: Oak Titmouse: Resident from southern Oregon south to Baja California. Preferred habitats include live oaks and deciduous growth, including oak woodlands, streamside cottonwoods, forest edges, and oak-juniper woodlands.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationStable

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight0.7 Ounces

Underparts

Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Crest

Tufts of feathers on the head of the bird.

Face

The front part of the head consisting of the bill, eyes, cheeks and chin.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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General

Range and Habitat

Breeding and Nesting

Foraging and Feeding

Readily Eats

Vocalization

Similar Species

Oak Titmouse

Flight Pattern