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Poecile montanus (Willow Tit)

Synonyms: Parus cinereus montanus; Poecile montana

Wikipedia Abstract

The willow tit (Poecile montanus) is a passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and northern Asia. It is more of a conifer specialist than the closely related marsh tit, which explains it breeding much further north. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate. The commonest call is a nasal zee, zee, zee, but the notes of the bird evidently vary considerably. Occasionally a double note, ipsee, ipsee, is repeated four or five times.
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Infraspecies

Poecile montanus affinis
Poecile montanus anadyrensis
Poecile montanus baicalensis
Poecile montanus borealis
Poecile montanus kamtschatkensis
Poecile montanus kleinschmidti
Poecile montanus montanus
Poecile montanus restrictus
Poecile montanus rhenanus
Poecile montanus sachalinensis
Poecile montanus salicarius
Poecile montanus songarus
Poecile montanus stoetzneri
Poecile montanus uralensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.13517
EDGE Score: 2.31601
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11.5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1.3 grams
Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Clutch Size [2]  8
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [3]  18 days
Incubation [4]  14 days
Maximum Longevity [5]  11 years
Wing Span [4]  7 inches (.19 m)
Female Maturity [3]  0 years 12 months

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Aegolius funereus (Boreal Owl)[6]
Dendrocopos major (Great Spotted Woodpecker)[6]
Strix aluco (Tawny Owl)[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 6Ecology of Commanster
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0