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Oak Titmouse

Baeolophus inornatus
OATI · Paridae · Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice
Grassland provisional · from avonet
3heard

The oak titmouse (Baeolophus inornatus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. The American Ornithologists' Union split the plain titmouse into the oak titmouse and the juniper titmouse in 1996, due to distinct differences in song, preferred habitat, and genetic makeup.The oak titmouse is a small, brown-tinged gray bird with small tuft or crest. The face is plain, and the undersides are a lighter gray. Sexes are similar, as there is very little to no sexual dimorphism. This species lives year-round on the…

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mean confidence
8–9 in wingspanestimated

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

3Detections
2Days heard
0.70Mean confidence
16 AugFirst heard
6 SepLast heard
1,234Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

16 Aug 6 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home1 detections
On outings2 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-08-16 06:16
9 s
Away
0.88
2026-08-16 06:57
9 s
Away
0.67
2026-09-06 12:29
9 s
0.55
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 27 Sep, 1:45pm Archive