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Calls of a blue tit. Eurasian blue tits use songs and calls throughout the year. [29] Songs are mostly used in late winter and spring to defend the territory or to attract mates. Calls are used for multiple reasons. [30] Communication with other Eurasian blue tits is the most important motivation for the use of calls.
Tits are cavity-nesting birds, typically using trees, although Pseudopodoces [12] builds a nest on the ground. Most tree-nesting tits excavate their nests, [13] and clutch sizes are generally large for altricial birds, ranging from usually two eggs in the rufous-vented tit of the Himalayas to as many as 10 to 14 in the blue tit of Europe.
Baeolophus is a genus of birds in the family Paridae, commonly called tits.Its members are known as titmouses or titmice.All the species are native to North America.In the past, most authorities retained Baeolophus as a subgenus within the genus Parus, but treatment as a distinct genus, initiated by the American Ornithological Society, is now widely accepted.
Their plumage is typically dull grey or brown, although some species have white markings and the long-tailed tit has some pinkish colour. [2] In contrast to the rest of the family the two Leptopoecile tit-warblers are quite brightly coloured, having violet and blue plumage. The crested tit-warbler is the only member of the family to have a crest.
Great tit in Sweden, winter 2016. The great tit (Parus major) is a small passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common species throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and east across the Palearctic to the Amur River, south to parts of North Africa where it is generally resident in any sort of woodland; most great tits do not migrate except in extremely harsh ...
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Another example of sexual dichromatism is that of nestling blue tits. Males are chromatically more yellow than females. Males are chromatically more yellow than females. It is believed that this is obtained by the ingestion of green Lepidopteran larvae, which contain large amounts of the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin . [ 9 ]
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