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Within Vinony's link graph, American Bushtit is referenced by 466 other articles, and connects out to bird, Alaudidae and Muscicapidae.
It is catalogued under topics including Aegithalidae, Birds described in 1837 and Birds of the Great Basin.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Mass
- 0.72
- Image
- Psaltriparus minimus -Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada -male-8.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Psaltriparus minimus
- Commons category
- Psaltriparus minimus
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- Psaltriparus minimus
- taxon common name
- chapim-rabilongo-americano
- short name
- P. minimus
- taxon range
- New Mexico
- taxon author citation
- (Townsend, 1837)
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Encyclopedic overview
The American bushtit, or simply bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus), is a social songbird belonging to the monotypic genus Psaltriparus. It is one of the smallest passerines in North America and it is the only species in the family Aegithalidae found in the Americas; the other eleven species occur in Eurasia.
The American bushtit's distinguishing characteristics are its tiny size, its plump and large head, and its long tail. Its range stretches from Vancouver in Canada, south through the Western United States, via the Great Basin, the lowlands and foothills of California, the highlands of Mexico, to Guatemala. Bushtits usually inhabit mixed open woodlands, which contains oaks and a scrubby chaparral understory. They can also be found residing in gardens and parks. Their food source is small insects, primarily, spiders in mixed-species feeding flocks.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “American Bushtit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.