Summary

  • Natural history: The Tufted Titmouse’s range crept only as far north as southern New York before the early 1900s, but a roughly 70-year northward push brought it to Massachusetts by the late 1950s and Vermont by 1976. Here it went from just 9 occupied blocks in the First Atlas to 104 in the Second Atlas, a colonization credited to a warming climate, maturing forests, and winter bird feeders.
  • Status in VT: Increased by 1,056% (9 to 104 blocks). Greatest increases in Champlain Valley and Northern Green Mountains.
  • Data from other research: FBMP: annual increase of 12.4%
  • Conservation status: State rank S5
  • Other atlases: NY: 84%; PA: 15%
  • VT’s role in North American range: VT is at the northern edge of the range.
  • Causes of change since first Atlas: warming climate; forest maturation; increase in winter feeding stations.
  • Management/Monitoring recommendations:No current recommendations.

First Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas (1976-1981)

Species Account

Second Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas (2003 – 2007)

Species Account

Tufted Titmouse Map 1Tufted Titmouse Table 1Tufted Titmouse Table 2

Change in Distribution

mapkeyTufted Titmouse Map 2Tufted Titmouse Table 3

Links

Vermont eBird

Encyclopedia of Life

All About Birds