You might not notice much difference between the tufted titmouse of East Texas and the black-crested titmouse of the Hill Country. Both are small, plain-gray birds only slightly larger than a ...

September is a fine month for enjoying oaks. Deciduous species still have their leaves, the lovely angular foliage of black oaks begins to turn to gold and acorns weigh down the boughs to attract the ...

Looks like: The tufted titmouse has a uniform pale gray body, white underbelly, black forehead and orange-buff flanks. The short, pointed crest and a short, stout bill help identify titmice even in ...

In our most recent birding column, we took a look at tufted titmice. Now come two more members of the titmouse family group with a different last name — chickadee. There are seven species of ...

If not for tufted titmice, my bird-feeding stations would be considerably less interesting. So, too, I assume, would yours. White-breasted nuthatches, chickadees, goldfinches, house finches, downy, ...

DEAR JOAN: Our backyard is blessed with a family of oak titmice, which we think are in the running for the world’s cutest bird. My wife and I have wondered how the oak titmouse came by its name. It ...

A little know-how and insight changes the game of birding — and has been known to offer more than a passing surge of joy. In fact, scientific evidence abounds to show that the happiness birds bring ...

In Bob Janssen's 1987 book "Birds of Minnesota" Tufted Titmouse is shown on a range map as a bird limited in Minnesota range to our far southeastern corner. Individuals occasionally were seen in other ...

Our tufted titmouse saga continues. I don’t have all of the area Christmas Bird Count results, yet, but from the several I do have from the Audubon website, it seems that the titmouse recovery in this ...