Great Tit
Parus major
Aves
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 2-3 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Flock
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- Eurasia
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Common
About
The Great Tit is Europe's largest tit, instantly recognisable by its bold black-and-white head, sunshine-yellow breast split by a neat black median stripe. It uses stone tools to extract prey from crevices — one of the very few wild bird species observed using objects as tools.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage and song.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Paridae
- Genus
- Parus
- Species
- Parus major