Tufted Titmice often pluck hair from sleeping mammals — including humans — to line their nests. Reports of titmice landing on people for hair are not urban myth.
Pairs typically stay on territory year-round and let yearling young remain through winter, giving them an unusual extended-family social structure.
They were once a southeastern bird; warming winters have pushed them as far north as southern Maine and Minnesota.
Confident at feeders and easy to attract if you have mature trees nearby. They'll cache sunflower seeds in bark crevices and return for them later.
Black-oil sunflower seeds, peanut pieces, and suet. They'll hang upside down on tube feeders to extract seeds.
Mount a 1¼" entrance box 4–10 ft up on a tree trunk or pole near a wooded edge.
Native oaks above all — they support both the insects titmice feed their chicks and the acorns titmice cache.
Shallow bath with a perching rim. They drink frequently and bathe vigorously.
House Wrens and chickadees compete for the same hole size; multiple boxes spaced 75+ ft apart give each species a shot.
Don't strip your yard of leaf litter — titmice forage in it for insects and acorns.
A resident of the eastern US that has expanded steadily north and west over the last century. Always near mature deciduous trees.
Year-round residents throughout from Virginia to Florida and west to east Texas. Most abundant where oak-hickory forest dominates.
Now resident as far north as southern Maine, central New York, and southern Quebec. Their northward push is one of the clearest songbird responses to warming winters.
Common from Ohio west to eastern Iowa, eastern Kansas, and Oklahoma.
Mature deciduous and mixed forest, especially oak-hickory. Common in well-treed neighborhoods, parks, and wooded yards.
Body sized to 4"×4" floor. The 1¼" panel locks out larger nest competitors while letting the Tufted Titmouse pass cleanly.
See the full lineupOften roosts in old woodpecker cavities or boxes during winter — keep yours up year-round.