Photos copyright: monacoeye • Danube Delta, Romania • May 2009 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Bearded Reedling
Latin: Panurus biarmicus
Other: Panure a moustaches (Fr) • Bearded Tit
Family: Panuridae • Sylviidae

At Lake Rosu there was a sizeable population of Bearded Reedlings inhabiting the lakeside reeds. The male adult (top) has a yellow beak, blue-grey head and large black vertical eyestripe (moustache).

Juveniles have black “lores” between eye and beak, the male juvenile having a yellow beak (middle photos), and the female juvenile a black beak (bottom photo).

Recent research has placed the Bearded Reedling outside the Tit family.More photos...

177 Panuridae - Bearded Reedling - IOC 2.5 - 2010

Bearded Reedling is not related to parrotbills, but sister to larks and Sylvioidea

Panurus biarmicus - Bearded Reedling - W, C Eurasia