Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus)
About the Black-crested Titmouse
The black-crested titmouse or Mexican titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus), is a passerine bird in the family Paridae, the tits and chickadees. It is found in Mexico and the U. S. states of Oklahoma and Texas and as a vagrant in at least one other state. The black-crested titmouse was originally described in 1850 as Parus atricristatus. It was later reassigned to its present genus Baeolophus that was erected in 1851. Still later it was treated as conspecific with the tufted titmouse (B. bicolor). As early as 1988 it was treated by some taxonomists as a separate species and the American Ornithological Society did so in 2002. The black-crested and tufted titmice hybridize in a narrow zone in Oklahoma and Texas. The black-crested titmouse has these three subspecies: B. a. paloduro Stevenson, JO, 1940
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 89 recordings for this species: 27 CC BY-NC-SA · 3 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Mexico, United States in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Oak TitmouseBaeolophus inornatusrecording
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolorrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.