Today, the Tufted Titmouse continues to expand northward into Canada. In the first half of this century, the Tufted Titmouse was found primarily along the Mississippi and Ohio river basins. In the 1940s, the Tufted Titmouse’s range expanded into Connecticut, and by the 1950s the Tufted Titmouse had been recorded in northern Pennsylvania, Upstate New York, Massachusetts, and Ontario (Canada). By the1970s, Vermont and Maine were also part of the territory. See details of this northward expansion by looking at results of past Christmas Bird Counts.

The Tufted Titmouse is an active, noisy, and conspicuously vocal bird whose typical song is a loud whistled peter peter peter. Both sexes have a distinctive black forehead and gray crest. The upperparts are gray, with slightly darker gray flight feathers. The lores are pale buff. The face and underparts are white with rufous flanks. The dark eye and eye ring are prominent on the white face.

A dominant bird at feeders, the Tufted Titmouse often chases away birds that are the same size or smaller. During winter, this titmouse caches food in bark crevasses throughout its territory.