Bearded Tit by Edouard Travies - Framed Royle Print - 20"H x 16"W

Bearded Tit by Edouard Travies - Framed Royle Print - 20"H x 16"W

Édouard Traviès was a French lithographer and illustrator. He regularly exhibited works at the Salon in Paris between 1831 and 1866.

The bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus) is a small, sexually dimorphic reed-bed passerine bird. It is frequently known as the bearded tit, due to some similarities to the long-tailed tit, or the bearded parrotbill.

This species is a wetland specialist, breeding colonially in large reed beds by lakes or swamps. It eats reed aphids in summer, and reed seeds in winter, its digestive system changing to cope with the very different seasonal diets.