General

Bridled Titmouse: Small titmouse with gray upperparts, black-bordered gray crest, white face, black bib, eyestripe, and ear patch border, and pale gray underparts. Wings and tail are gray. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Bridled Titmouse: Resident from southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico southward through mountains of Mexico to southern Mexico. Preferred habitats include oak and mixed oak-pine-juniper woodlands.

Breeding and Nesting

Bridled Titmouse: Five to seven white eggs are laid in a nest made of moss, lined with animal fur, feathers, and shredded bark, and built from 4 to 8 feet above the ground in a conifer, deciduous tree, nest box, or snag. Female incubates eggs for about 14 days.

Foraging and Feeding

Bridled Titmouse: Eats insects, pine seeds, acorns, and other seeds. Gleans insects from leaves and twigs, often hanging upside down; holds food under feet for pecking. Often forages in mixed species flocks.

Readily Eats

Suet, Sunflower Seed

Vocalization

Bridled Titmouse: Song is a rich, two-syllable "chee-wee" repeated from four to eight times. Call is a fast "chick-a-dee-dee" in a high pitch.

Similar Species

Bridled Titmouse: Mountain Chickadee is crestless and has white eyestripe that does not connect with bib. Juniper Titmouse is gray overall, slightly darker on wings, tail and upperparts, and lacks facial markings.