Audubon California nature centers teach children and their families about creating a bird-friendly community. This is especially helpful in keeping common birds, like the darling Bushtit, common.

Bushtits specialize in gleaning food from leaves and branches of trees and shrubs, especially leaves and smaller stems and on the outer branches. The bulk of Bushtit's diet (about 80 percent) consists of small insects and spiders, the remaining 20 percent is comprised of tiny seeds and other plant materials.

Flocks forage over a large home range of at least 250 acres. Flocks will roost or rest huddled together, which is an especially endearing trait of the species.