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A bald blue tit with mite. Eurasian blue tits are known to be host to feather mites, and rarely lice and flat flies. In Europe, the only feather mite species known to live on the blue tit host is Proctophyllodes stylifer. However, this mite seems to be of no concern to the bird as, until now, it is only known to feed on dead feather tissue.
Blue tit At Samsing in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Lycaenidae Genus: Chliaria Species: C. kina Binomial name Chliaria kina (Hewitson, 1869) Synonyms Hypolycaena kina Hewitson, 1869 (but see text) The blue tit is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found ...
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.
Cisticolas are generally very small birds of drab brown or grey appearance found in open country such as grassland or scrub. They are often difficult to see and many species are similar in appearance, so the song is often the best identification guide. These are insectivorous birds which nest low in vegetation. Zitting cisticola, Cisticola juncidis
The African blue tit ranges from 11–12 cm (4.3–4.7 in) in size. [3] It is a small, sharp-billed, compact tit.The nominate race has a forehead and supercilium to centre of nape white, crown deep glossy blue, becoming blackish on the neck, with a blue dorsal and yellow ventral body.
Coal tit (Periparus ater) A – resident breeding species Crested tit (Lophophanes cristatus) A – resident breeding species Marsh tit (Poecile palustris) A – resident breeding species Willow tit (Poecile montana) A – resident breeding species Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) A – resident breeding species Great tit (Parus major)
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Enallagma cyathigerum (common blue damselfly or common bluet) is a species found mainly between latitudes 40°N and 72°N; [2] It is widely distributed in the Palearctic, common in all European countries (including Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland, etc.) and in Asia in Turkey, Iran, Russia, and South Korea. [1]