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They flitted down from the pecan trees and telephone wires: bold Tufted Titmice, bouncing Northern Cardinals and bullying crowds of White-winged Doves, House Sparrows and European Starlings.

From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2022

See also the Swallows; the Shrikes; Nuthatches and Titmice; the Kingbird and other Flycatchers; the Nighthawk; the Redstart; and the following Warblers: the Myrtle; the Bay-breasted; the Blackburnian; and the Black-throated Blue Warbler.

From Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Blanchan, Neltje

An ecological analysis of the interbreeding of Crested Titmice in Texas.

From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Urban, Emil K.

In the manner of the smaller Woodpecker, the Creepers, Nuthatches, and Titmice, it moves rapidly around the trunks and larger limbs of the trees of the forest in search of small insects and their larvae.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 6 June, 1897 by Various

Titmice, great, blue and long-tailed, are well distributed.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)