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Armenian Name: | Ճոճահավ |
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Species Status: | Undetermined Species - Species of Special Concern |
See Plate 52 for Eurasian Penduline Tit and other similar species
Resident Status: | Year-round resident |
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Abundance: | Common |
Length: | 11 cm, Wing Span:16-17.5 cm |
Distribution Map: | Map 295. |
Description: | Tiny with black mask. |
Adult: | Male: pale gray head with black mask, red-brown back, and pale brown-yellow underparts. Female: duller, browner head and upperparts. |
Juvenile: | Grayish head lacking mask; orange-brown back. |
Habitat: | Poplars and willows along rivers and lakes, reedbeds. |
Food: | Insects. |
Nest: | Hanging oval basket of plant fibers and down with short entrance tube, in trees. |
Eggs: | 16 mm, 6-8, white. |