Long-tailed Tit: Nest & eggs

The Long-tailed Tit is an open nester whose nest ranks among the most skilfully crafted in the bird world.

• Shape: an egg- or ball-shaped, fully enclosed nest with a small entrance on the side.
• Material: moss and lichen bound together with spider silk, which makes the walls elastic so that the nest grows with the young.
• Lining: lined with up to 2,000 small feathers.
• Location: built by both sexes over several weeks, hidden in a fork in a dense bush, blackthorn or birch.

Because the nest is built out in the open in shrubbery, the species does not use nest boxes.

More about the Long-tailed Tit

• Song & calls
• Breeding
• Diet
• In winter
• Migration