Wednesday 2 October 2024

Wild Bird Wednesday 636 - Great Tit

The Great Tit (Parus major) is a small passerine in the family Paridae. Members of this family are commonly referred to as "tits" throughout much of the English-speaking world, but North American species are called either "chickadees" or "titmice".

The Great Tit is widespread and common throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and east across the Palearctic to the Amur River, and south to parts of North Africa.

This species is generally found in any sort of woodland. It is also common in gardens, especially those with bird feeders.  It was probably one of the first birds I leant to identify many, many years ago.

This bird was photographed at the RSPB reserve at Ham Wall in Somerset in the UK.  British birds are known to have a wider dark line on the stomach than many other members of this species.








These pictures were taken in February this year, and I think you can see hints of early spring in some of the buds in the pictures.

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12 comments:

  1. Thank you friend for this get together that I look forward to every week. Wishing you a good week. With Aloha

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  2. Handsome bird. He looks like a yellow chickadee.

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  3. The great tit looks so cute!

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  4. Great shots of the male Great Tit Stewart Thanks for hosting and commenting. Have a good week ahead

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  5. Hari OM
    I love all of the Tit family and often hear these fellows, more than I spot them. Magnificent shots, Stewart! YAM xx

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  6. Great little bird. I have enjoyed them greatly on trips to Europe.

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  7. Nice pictures ! In France we have also these Great Tits but they seem smaller; we have also the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) beautiful with blue cap !

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  8. This beauty is the shape of our Black Capped Chickadees but so much more colourful.

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  9. Już niedługo będę je fotografować w swoim karmniku. Piękne zdjęcia jej zrobiłeś. Rzeczywiście, krawat ma imponujący!

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  10. we have chickadees in our areas, but the colors are not wonderful like your photos....
    great shots

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  11. Lovely! We don’t have those. Thank you for sharing.

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  12. We have masses of these who come to our garden for food and they make sure that they hang around in summer as well and expect a bit of extra food. They are such lovely birds. Great photos. Have a good week Diane

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