Great Tit

ARKive - Great Tit, Parus major
http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/birds/Parus_major/
Research the current conservation status of this common UK garden bird. Links for more detailed data and range of colour photographs.

BBCi - Great Tit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/249.shtml
Download a sample of the great tit’s wide range of calls in an audio clip and find facts on its habitat, diet and behaviour.

British Garden Birds - Great Tit
http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/greattit.htm
Discover how to tell the difference between the male and female of the species. Includes data on feeding and breeding, plus colour image.

British Trust for Ornithology - Great Tit, Parus major
http://www.bto.org/birdtrends2004/wcrgreti.htm
Begin studying bird that is actually increasing numbers in the UK since 1960’s. Provides table of population changes for great tit, 1967-2003.

British Trust for Ornithology - Great Tit - Parus major
http://www.bto.org/gbw/Species/BIRDS_GRETI.htm
Gain an insight into how the diet of the great tit changes between summer and winter. Also notes on ecology and behaviour, plus colour shot.

Garden Safari, The - Great Titmouse
http://www.gardensafari.net/english/pages/koolmees.htm
Read about bird that can often be sighted in UK gardens and is indigenous to Holland. Also close-up images of male and female showing the important black strip for sexing.

Pönttökamera - Bird Box Cam
http://www.ponttokamera.net/index_e.htm
Evaluate this visual record of great tits hatching inside a nesting box. Also includes detailed field notes presented as a diary.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - Great Tit
http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/g/greattit/
Get to know this colourful bird that has colonized the whole of the UK except high ground in winter and the Western Isles of Scotland. Find out what it sounds like and eats.

Song Bird Survival - Great Tits and the Sparrowhawks
http://www.songbird-survival.org.uk/fact4.htm
Peruse article challenging the assumption that the sparrowhawk is responsible for decline in great tit numbers. Series of colour images of adult great tits and young.

Virtual Birding in Tokyo - Nesting of Great Tit 1996
http://www.fsinet.or.jp/~bird/bird/greattit/kara96.html
Pore over this day-to-day record of the development of a great tit family in a nest box. Colour images showing creation of nest, clutch of eggs, and babies hatching.

Woodland Trust: Nature Detectives - Great Tit
http://www.naturedetectives.org.uk/Identify/Birds/greattit.htm
Research where you are most likely to find the largest of the tit family. Also information on how you can help scientists gauge the effect of climate change.

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