Long-tailed Tit

The long-tailed tit is a very small Eurasian songbird whose disproportionately long tail immediately distinguishes it from true tits and other woodland passerines. Its plumage combines black and white with variable pink and grey. Geographic variation is conspicuous: northern forms are paler and can have wholly white heads, whereas southern populations show large dark eyebrow markings. The species is the only member of the bushtit family found across northern Eurasia and has numerous recognised regional forms. (Wikipedia, long-tailed tit account)

Long-tailed tits are insectivorous and use deciduous and mixed woodland, scrub, heathland, farmland, parks and gardens. Outside the breeding season they travel in compact family flocks of six to seventeen birds; these groups separate when nesting begins. The species favours scrub for breeding and frequently places its nest in a thorny bush less than three metres above the ground. Its social flocks and restless progress through low vegetation often make behaviour as useful for recognition as the long tail itself. (Wikipedia, long-tailed tit account)