[2] This was accompanied by an expansion of the species’ winter range and reached as far south as northern Morocco.

[4] The Eurasian penduline tit was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacilla pedulinus.

The specific epithet is from Latin pendulus meaning "pendant" or "hanging down", referring to the nest.

[8] Four subspecies are recognised:[7] This is a small tit, 10–11.5 cm (3.9–4.5 in) in length with a finely pointed bill and a relatively long tail.

The nest is suspended from thin long branches of trees such as willow (Salix), elm (Ulmus) or birch (Betula), often over water.

It generally searches for food in trees but will also forage in reeds where it will take insects from the stem as well as the seed head.

It is therefore not believed to meet the IUCN Red List threshold criterion of a population decline of more than 30% in ten years or three generations, and is evaluated as Least Concern.