18-557: Red Moor may refer to: Red Moor (nature reserve) , a nature reserve and SSSI in Cornwall, England Red Moor (Rhön) , an important wetland in Hesse, Germany Red Moors , an Italian political party Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Red Moor . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
36-548: A black cap and bib. It is more of a conifer specialist than the closely related marsh tit , which explains it breeding much further north. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate . The willow tit was described in 1827 by the Swiss naturalist Thomas Conrad von Baldenstein under the trinomial name Parus cinereus montanus . The type locality is the mountain forests in the Canton of Grisons , Switzerland. The willow tit
54-622: A distinct clade. Within Poecile , most of the Old World species (including the willow tit) form a separate clade from the New World chickadees. The taxonomic analysis has shown that the willow tit is sister to the Caspian tit ( Poecile hyrcanus ). There are 14 recognised subspecies : The Sichuan tit ( Poecile weigoldicus ) was formerly treated as a subspecies of the willow tit. It
72-495: A large head, a thin bill, a long dull black cap that descends to the mantle and a black bib. The sides of the face are white, the back is grey-brown and the underparts are buff. The sexes are similar in appearance. In the east of its range it is much paler than marsh tit, but as one goes west the various races become increasingly similar, so much so that it was not recognised as a breeding bird in Great Britain until
90-555: Is 11 years; this has been recorded for a bird in Finland and for another near Nottingham in England. Birds feed on insects , caterpillars , and seeds , much like other tits. This species is parasitised by the moorhen flea , Dasypsyllus gallinulae . The willow tit has an extremely large range with an estimated population of between 175 and 253 million mature individuals. This large population appears to be slowly decreasing but
108-600: Is located mainly within Lanlivery civil parish, 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of the town of Lostwithiel . The similarly named hamlet of Redmoor is directly east of the reserve. The nature reserve is owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust /Cornwall Trust for Nature. The river coursing out of the north of the site, a tributary of the River Par , was found to flow through tin -bearing gravels by
126-562: Is now placed in the genus Poecile that was erected by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1829. The genus name, Poecile , is the Ancient Greek name for a now unidentifiable small bird, and the specific montanus is Latin for "of the mountains". Poecile was at one time treated as a subgenus within the genus Parus but molecular taxonomic analysis, using both nuclear and mitochondrial genes, supports Poecile as
144-430: Is typically between six and nine eggs. The eggs have a white background and are marked with red-brown speckles and spots which are often concentrated at the broader end. They measure around 15.8 mm × 12.3 mm (0.62 in × 0.48 in) and weigh 1.2 g (0.042 oz). The eggs are incubated by the female alone and hatch after 13–15 days. The chicks are then cared for and fed by both parents but only
162-540: The bill are longer, but this is not an easily noticed character. The commonest call is a nasal zee , zee, zee , but the notes of the bird evidently vary considerably. Occasionally a double note, ipsee, ipsee , is repeated four or five times. The willow tit excavates its own nesting hole, even piercing hard bark; this is usually in a rotten stump or in a tree, more or less decayed. Most nests are cups of felted material, such as fur, hair and wood chips, but feathers are sometimes used. The eggs are laid daily. The clutch
180-613: The decline is not sufficiently rapid to approach the threshold of vulnerability. The species is therefore classed as of least-concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature . In contrast, the number in the United Kingdom declined by 83% between 1995 and 2017. There was also a contraction in the range. The rapid decline is believed be due to three factors: habitat loss, competition for nest holes by other tits particularly blue tits, and nest predation by
198-496: The early mediaeval period . This part of Red Moor was mined for loose tin until the end of the 19th century and the oxidised metal is thought to give the moor its descriptive name. This SSSI used to belong to the Red Moor– Breney Common SSSI , the two sites having split in the 1986 revision where both sites were expanded. It is adjacent to Helman Tor nature reserve. There are two main habitat types within
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#1732772508378216-409: The end of the 19th century, despite being widespread. The willow tit is distinguished from the marsh tit by a sooty brown instead of a glossy blue black cap; the general colour is otherwise similar, though the under parts are more buff and the flanks distinctly more rufous ; the pale buff edgings to the secondaries form a light patch on the closed wing. The feathers of the crown and the black bib under
234-415: The female broods the young. The nestlings fledge after 17–20 days. Only a single brood is raised each season. In a study using ring-recovery data carried out in northern Finland, the survival rate for juveniles for their first year was 0.58, and the subsequent adult annual survival rate was 0.64. For birds that survive the first year the typical lifespan is thus only three years. The maximum recorded age
252-606: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_Moor&oldid=666911884 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Red Moor (nature reserve) Red Moor is a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), noted for its biological characteristics, near Lanlivery in mid Cornwall , England , UK . The 89-hectare (220-acre) SSSI, notified in 1979,
270-512: The site include the willow tit , tree pipit , European nightjar and the Eurasian sparrowhawk . Willow tit Parus montanus The willow tit ( Poecile montanus ) is a passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and across the Palearctic . The plumage is grey-brown and off-white with
288-416: The site include the climbing corydalis ( Ceratocapnos claviculata ) and the royal fern ( Osmunda regalis ). On the site can be found 13 species of dragonfly and damselfly , which include the scarce blue-tailed damselfly , a nationally rare species. Aquatic beetles are also present on the moor, the very scarce Hydrochus nitidicollis being one, as well as 2 uncommon spiders. Birds recorded on
306-399: The site; the dry dwarf-shrub heath to the north and wetter marshy grassland , wetland heath and bog-land in the low-lying basin to the south. The bog contains a variety of Sphagnum peat mosses - that disperse their spores from June to August - bog asphodel ( Narthecium ossifragum ), cottongrass ( Eriophorum vaginatum ), and marsh cinquefoil ( Potentilla palustris ). Other flora on
324-407: Was promoted to species status based on a 2002 phylogenetic analysis that compared DNA sequences from the mitochondrial cytochrome- b gene. The single locus results were later confirmed by a larger multi-locus analysis published in 2017. The willow tit is 11.5 cm (4.5 in) in length, has a wingspan of 17–20.5 cm (6.7–8.1 in) and weighs around 11 g (0.39 oz). It has
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