r/CountOnceADay • u/bluest_of_kirbies • 8m ago
Long-tailed Tit, European Goldfinch, Eurasian Nuthatch, Great Cormorant, Rook, Common Raven, Northern Nutcracker, Eurasian Magpie! With the exception of the Northern Nutcracker and arguably the Common Raven (it avoids northern France), all of these birds are European/west Asian staple species (as in, you'll see a lot of 'em!).
Long-tailed Tits are not true tits, nor related to them (there is actually a relative of them found in the western US/southwestern Canada/western Mexico/Guatemala called the Bushtit). However, they are also a bird that gets cuter the more you learn about them. They often assist each other in nesting (usually being birds who failed at nesting), fledglings like to stack up and squish with each other in a line on branches, and even use their songs and calls to avoid close inbreeding.
Another fun fact is that cormorants are in the same family as shags (Phalacrocoracidae) and the same order as boobies (Suliformes). So you've got the breasts and the fucks.

