Change icon?

[johnridley]

How about International Use An Icon I Uploaded Months Ago But Never Found An Excuse To Use day?

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[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

Sure. We'll take that.

[forestweather.livejournal.com]

Well, John, those are chickadees, as far as I can tell, not tits(titmice)...

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

No, those are great tits. They are the same family. Chicadees and great tits are both of family Paridae, and the NatGeo Birds of North America field guide lists chickadees and titmice in the same section, it's just a matter of common name. That book doesn't have great tits since they're non-migratory european and asian birds.

They DO look a lot like black-cap chickadees, or perhaps mountain, but they have more distinctive yellow markings, plus the white wing band and the dark breast band.

Wikipedia is an excellent source for birds, someone's been doing a crazy amount of work on it in this area:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_tit