Northern Long-tailed Tit

Aegithalidae: Bushtits

Northern Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus caudatus (1, 0)

STATUS: Extremely rare visitor. BBRC.

1). 1852 Tynemouth, picked up dead, November, now at Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

(Hancock, 1874; Howse, 1899; J. M. Charlton, Zoologist 1911: 217; Bolam, 1912; BOU, 1915; Witherby et al., 1940-52; Galloway & Meek, 1978-83; P. Tapsell, Birds in Northumbria 2005: 237-248, plate).