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@rookscript.reductive.group

Who’s even kidded here, I’m not a tit, my ass is not even cinereous. I’m 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘷𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘴—bald-nosed crow—the Paridae connection’s spurious

October 28, 2026 at 11:15 PM

Tsupi_WBSY カラリーマン

@tsupi-wbsy.bsky.social

I absolutely love tits—everything about them is just adorable, from their glossy foreheads to their understated undertail coverts!

ああもう大好きすぎる。
シジュウカラもヨーロッパシジュウカラも🫶
#BirdArt
#SciArt
#paridae

October 27, 2026 at 8:34 AM

Mid-Atlantic Josh

@jmode6.bsky.social

This is the Sultan Tit (Melanochlora sultanea), in the family Paridae.

This is not a woodpecker.

October 29, 2026 at 10:42 PM

botEnSky

@botensky.bsky.social

A small blue and yellow bird perched on a branch by Łukasz Rawa (Unsplash https://spoo.me/5glkro9)

BioClip identify (at 73.71%) Cyanistes caeruleus genus:Cyanistes (fam. Paridae) com. Blue Tit

#1Day1Bioclip

BioClip identify (at 73.71%) Cyanistes caeruleus genus:Cyanistes (fam. Paridae) com. Blue Tit
Image Unsplash details :
exif:SONY, ILCE-7M4
location:Warszawa, Poland
keywords: animal, bird, wildlife, birds, outdoors, close up, nature images, blue tit, bird photography, beauty in nature, poland, warszawa
updated: Wed Oct 28 2026 16:03:25 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)

October 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM

雪乃しずく（shizukuxuenai）

@shizukuxuenai.bsky.social

ときどきBOTDでAnatidaeとかParidaeとかお題出るけど（それぞえカモ科、シジュウカラ科）、こういうとき英語圏というかアルファベット文化圏のがスムーズだろなあ、と思う…

お魚の分類で”スズキ目”が話題になってたけど、分類再編はともかくとして、名称は日本語（訳語）の問題なんでしょうねきっと

鳥類や哺乳類はわりと統一的な見解が共有されやすいみたいだけど、だとしたらきっと数が限られてるからだろうなあと思います

雪乃しずく（shizukuxuenai） @shizukuxuenai.bsky.social · 9d

細かい分類やら学名やら（たぶんそれにともなって英名も）がちょこちょこ変わっているのはシジュウカラだけじゃなくて
鴨とか鴎とか鷸とか鶫＆鶲とか、海鳥とか、識別難儀系けっこうある…

おもしろいなと思ったのが、和名や英名に変更はないんだけど、ノゴマ
第7版Luscinia calliopeで、Lusciniaはノゴマ属だったんだけど
第8版ではCalliope calliopeで、Calliopeがノゴマ属
でも、Lusciniaは現存してて、それは第8版ではオガワコマドリ属なんです、オガワコマドリはLuscinia svecicaで学名変更なし
属名の和訳だけ変わったみたい

雪乃しずく（shizukuxuenai） @shizukuxuenai.bsky.social · 10d

日本の俺達からすれば、「俺達のシジュウカラの学名と英名がころころ変わってる」なんだけど（そしてまた変わるかもしれないという…）
学名とか英名とか、基亜種がやっぱりヨーロッパのになっちゃてるだろうから、アジア圏はそのへん不利なんだろうなあ、とは、思います

October 26, 2026 at 1:26 AM

Jan Casavant

@jancasavant.bsky.social

Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Juveniles, and the Alt theme is #Green, birds with green backgrounds. For both, here's a young, very fluffy #Black-cappedChickadee resting on a branch (Concord, Mass. - 7/20/26) 😍💚🪶

#birds #Paridae #LittleBirds #ECK #BirdPhotography #OM-1 @robcrank68.bsky.social

A fluffy, juvenile Black-capped Chickadee with a whitish head and breast, a brownish-black face and cap, and a mix of gray, brown and white back, wings and tail feathers. This bird was perched on a crooked brown branch that was hanging down from a tree, with other small branches and blurred green and yellow leaves in the background. Seen at Great Meadows NWR in Concord, Massachusetts.

October 23, 2026 at 12:33 PM

botEnSky

@botensky.bsky.social

brown humming bird on tree branch by Vincent van Zalinge (Unsplash https://spoo.me/i5bOM7e)

BioClip identify (at 96.53%) Lophophanes cristatus genus:Lophophanes (fam. Paridae) com. Crested Tit

#1Day1Bioclip

BioClip identify (at 96.53%) Lophophanes cristatus genus:Lophophanes (fam. Paridae) com. Crested Tit
Image Unsplash details :
keywords: green, bird, wildlife
updated: Fri Oct 23 2026 10:08:23 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)

October 23, 2026 at 2:59 PM

Helena Ludwig 🇪🇺🇦🇹🎶📸

@helenaludwig.bsky.social

Good morning! @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is:

#Black&White Alt. is #Colourful - any bird with 3 or more colours.

One of my beloved blue tits, just taking flight. 🐦💙

#birds #BlueTit #Blaumeise #vogel #BirdPhotography #nature #wildlife #paridae #ECK #WildlifeWednesday

October 21, 2026 at 6:50 AM

papeekaboo.bsky.social

@papeekaboo.bsky.social

En fait, y'a plein de tits 😇

(source wiki)

• Tit (bird) or Paridae, a large family of passerine birds
• Penduline tit or Remizidae, sometimes included in Paridae as Remizinae
• Bearded tit, a small reed-bed passerine bird
• Long-tailed tits or Aegithalidae, a family of passerine birds with long tails
• Tit-babbler or Macronus, a genus in the family Timaliidae
• Tit berrypecker, a species of bird in the family Paramythiidae
• Tit hylia, a species of bird in the family Cettiidae
• Tomtit, a small passerine bird of the family
Petroicidae
• Tomtit (disambiguation)#Birds, various other birds called tomtits
• Wrentit, a small bird, the only species in the genus Chamaea
• Shriketit or Falcunculus, the only genus in the family Falcunculidae

October 22, 2026 at 5:41 PM

Chicago Journals

@chicagojournals.bsky.social

Paridae easily adjust to new environments, making them important candidates for studies on cognition. This review from the Quarterly Review of Biology collects past research and conducts a review on Paridae with a focus on cognition. https://ow.ly/IoFe50ZXrbA Quarterly Review of Biology

October 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Parrot air traffic controller

@bobthebird.bsky.social

A little yellow light in the darkness for Rob.
#BirdOfTheDay #Paridae.

October 16, 2026 at 1:16 PM

Aintright

@aintright.bsky.social

Barry the bashful Blue Tit. #BirdOfTheDay #Paridae #birds #ECK #birdphotography

October 16, 2026 at 9:47 AM

Elie Axelroth

@elieaxelroth.bsky.social

#BirdoftheDay #Birding #Birdphotography Been traveling recently. Here’s a Great Tit I saw in Helsinki for today’s #Paridae challenge. They were quite bold, even pecked at my backpack.