How to Attract Tufted Titmouse to Your Yard

Want to bring Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) to your yard? Here is the honest, data-backed version — the feeders and food they actually use, whether they will take a nest box, and the habitat that keeps them coming back. Every recommendation is drawn from real bird-science sources (the Cornell Lab, Audubon and their peers), not guesswork.

The best feeders for Tufted Titmouse

Readily comes to feeders for sunflower seeds or suet; typically takes one large sunflower seed at a time, holds it in its feet and hammers it open, so hopper, tube and platform feeders all serve it well. Hoards shelled seeds in bark crevices.

Feeder styles that work for this bird:

• tube feeder
• hopper feeder
• platform / tray feeder
• suet feeder
• peanut feeder

What to feed Tufted Titmouse

The foods this species takes most readily:

• black-oil sunflower
• sunflower hearts
• peanuts
• suet

Will Tufted Titmouse use a nest box?

Yes — Tufted Titmouse is a cavity nester that will take a correctly-sized nest box. Use these NestWatch dimensions (the entrance-hole size is what keeps larger competitors out):

Give the box a rough or grooved interior below the hole so chicks can climb out, ventilation and drainage holes, and no outside perch (perches only help predators and competitors).

How to attract Tufted Titmouse to your yard

Inhabits deciduous (sometimes mixed) forest with tall trees and does well in orchards, suburbs and city parks where trees are large. It cannot excavate its own hole, so it depends on natural cavities, old woodpecker holes, or nest boxes placed among large deciduous trees. Mature trees plus a nest box are the draw.

See it near you

For the full profile — photos, sounds, range and ID — see the Tufted Titmouse species page. To find where it is being reported right now, use Birds Near You.