Willow
Tit winter survival either may be quite constant, or there may be early-winter mortality peaks that seem to correlate with exceptional coldness.
Unlike the tim'rous wee coal
tit or indeed the very sociable long-tailed
tit, the one bird that always considers itself to be at the top of its pecking order, is of course, cock robin.
Other winners were coal
tit (+263%), magpie (+173%), wren (+88%), great
tit (+67%) and blue
tit (+7%).
Willow
tits live in scrubby woodland and many developers will say that this is not important habitat.
John Money took this photo of a blue
tit at Scaling Dam
Their noisy approach to nest-building can also draw the attention of more common Blue and Great
Tits, which then occupy the new nest hole.
tit Woodpigeon
tit This decline continues a national trend that has seen the number of both species visiting gardens drop by 81 and 89% respectively since the first Birdwatch in 1979.
Northumberland: House sparrow; starling; blackbird; blue
tit; chaffinch; woodpigeon; great
tit; robin; goldfinch; jackdaw.
County Durham: house sparrow; starling; blue
tit; blackbird; chaffinch; great
tit; collared dove; gold-finch; woodpigeon; jackdaw.
But not all birds are as nimble as
tits - for example, robins, dunnocks, chaffinches and blackbirds - and the best bet here is to place food on top of the table or scatter it on the ground.
Great
Tit The Great
Tit is perhaps best known for its piercing "teacher-teacher" song, which sounds very much like a bicycle pump.
"This is the first study to show that male blue
tit behaviour depends on female ornamentation," said Dr Matteo Griggio, co-author of this study.
"A pack of three cards featuring lovely wintry images of a blue
tit, a firecrest and a long-tailed
tit is flying off the shelves, and we hope this proves people realise all birds need A long-tailed our help at the moment."
The purpose of this study was to test the predictions of these two models using
tit (Parus spp.) species in coniferous forests as our subjects.
RSPB Scotland senior species policy officer Keith Morton said since it started 40 years ago, the birdwatch survey had painted a positive picture for birds such as wood pigeon and coal
tit, while revealing alarming declines for species such as song thrush, starlings, and house sparrows.
