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- Of the more common species in the UK, Marsh and Willow Tit probably present one of the more difficult ID challenges. View our Bird ID video to gain some invaluable tips on key features to tell them apart.
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This situation kind of reminds me of the Black Capped Chickadee and Carolina Chickadee here in the US. They look very similar and where their ranges overlap, it can be almost impossible to tell them apart.
Finally found out today, a Marsh Tit, my first positive ID, due to the 'sneeze'.
That's great - keep up the good work!
@selimap We've added some additional labels to hopefully make this a tad more clear.
Amazing Iittle birds. Very helpful and informative. Thank you for sharing.
There's a great deal of film and pictures where I don't know which I'm watching! Surely it shouls be made clear at all times which bird is in the camera?
Excellent as always! Watching this because I've got the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch live TH-cam feed on my telly right now and there was a willow or marsh tit on one of the feeders - there were coal tits as well. From the comments (NOT my identification skills!) it was a willow tit.
Might be a totally bone-headed question, but how can this video not even mention the shape of the black bib? In my copy of the Collins Bird Guide this appears to be *the* morphological feature that I would want to use to distinguish them (although I see that some overlap is noted, as with all morphological features for this pair). Is it so unreliable?
All of the classical visual ID features have been shown to be of very limited value.
Is it possible they actually interbreed? I can't really tell the difference and as a novice I was thinking, could you add coal tit as well or maybe just all of the tit family, because these 2 on their own do seem so similar.
Thanks very much for this great educational video! I think sadly I may have encountered one of those silent willow / marsh tits 😂 So I cannot identify it. But as far as I could tell, the one rare time I heard it say anything, it wasn’t very different from the sounds a great tit or coal tit makes. I think it is that that prompted me to believe it was simply a juvenile great tit causing it to have white feathers.
My app identified it as a black-capped chickadee but that’s nonsense since it’s in Britain.
So I doubt that too.
Which of the two is more common in cities?
People did not search for birds
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Very clever stuff this,I saw one or the other? a couple of years ago (quite a few of them) near Wooler in Northumberland and wish I'd had all this information then.
So cute!!
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Thank you. Very useful
Hello I spotted some birds I mistook for Willow tits (looked exactly like them) but were much smaller than Blue tits what could they be?
Sounds like a coal tit
Thank you for this very useful information .
Very many thanks
Very good.
Great video. We currently have a pair of Marsh tits nesting in our bird box in back garden. It took lots of observation to decide they were Marsh and not willow tits, but now I'm quite sure.
How high is the nesting box and how big is the hole?
looks like a chickadee to me
They are very closely related to American Chickadees!
ya wow
@@BTOvideo bibless chickadees lol
Can anyone tell me the name of the bird that comes into shot 2:04 it has sparrow like wings and almost a completely black head and grey underside,
Hi David, that's a Great Tit - Parus Major.
...but you may have been refering to the Reed Bunting that appears just behind the Great Tit.
Reed bunting.