10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREAT TIT»
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1
Attracting Birds to Your Garden
PERIOD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 AUTUMN 94 Blue Tit Blackbird Robin House
Sparrow Great Tit Dunnock Starling Chaffinch Greenfinch ("ollared Dove
WINTER 95 Blackbird Blue Tit Robin House Sparrow Chaffinch Great Tit Du
nnock Starling ...
Stephen Moss, David Cottridge, 2000
2
Bill Oddie's Birds of Britain and Ireland
GREAT TIT 14 CM, 5.5 IN Almost as familiar as Blue Tit, but absent or scarce in
the Highlands of Scotland and the Northern Isles. Nearly as big as a House
Sparrow, and perhaps even more aggressive. Often chases other tits off the
feeders.
In figure 68 1 have made a diagrammatic comparison between this chain of
causes and the Great Tit invasions which have been recorded at Falsterbo during
a 3 5-year period. The concordance. even though not 100%. is good. The
heaviest ...
4
Birds of the Middle East
A monochrome Great Tit in appearance, with similar black markings but
upperparts pale blue-grey with a hint ofgreen on upper mantle (when seen
closely), underparts whitish, the alula contrastingly darker and tail square-cut (
outermost ...
Richard Porter, Simon Aspinall, 2010
5
Reproductive Success: Studies of Individual Variation in ...
in the great tit. J. Anim. Ecol. 35:533-44. . 1984b. Quantitative genetics in natural
populations of birds illustrated with examples from the great tit, Parus major. In
Population biology and evolution, ed. K. Wohman and V. Loeschke, 67-79.
T. H. Clutton-Brock, 1988
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A Field Guide to the Birds of China
AZURE TIT 353 with white-bellied races of Great Tit. Race yunnanensis has
brighter green upperparts than nominate form. Iris — brown; bill — black; feet —
slaty-grey. Voice: Similar to Great Tit but louder, shriller and clearer. Range:
Pakistan ...
John Ramsay MacKinnon, 2000
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The Ecology of Bird Communities
... Reference measure Result Resource manipulations Thompson & Wintering
Seed Species No relationship to diet Lawton 1983 passerines/ combinations
associations overlap; some - England associations, more + •Krebs 1971 Great Tit
-Blue ...
Male great tit song perch selection in response to noise-dependent female
feedback. Functional Ecology, 26, 1339–1347. Halfwerk, W., Bot, S., Buikx, J.,
van der Velde, M., Kom- deur, J., ten Cate, C., and Slabbekoorn, H. (2011a). Low
songs ...
Diego Gil, Henrik Brumm, 2013
9
Enid Blyton's Nature Lover's Book
... with glossy black head and yellow and green colouring. " Pink-pink ! " he said,
as he swung on a nut and pecked hard at it. " The great-tit ! " said Pat, at once,
remembering that the great-tit and the chaffinch both said " pink-pink." " Right,"
said ...
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Hardwicke's Science-gossip
The Great Tit has a beautiful black cap, back and wings of a greyish green, the
sides of the head, breast, and underpart of a dusky yellow ; it has great strength
in the feet and bill, and if handled darts upon the fingers and bites severely.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREAT TIT»
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Stornoway singer Brian Briggs: my favourite British bird songs
I found the great tit's renowned high-pitched “teacher, teacher” song one of the easiest to learn. You can hear it in the dawn chorus at the end of ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Cricklewood open gardens that hark back to rural heritage of the area
... Elayne Coakes's back garden in Teignmouth Road, by standing on her terrace above a “meadow” and immediately seeing a great tit winging ... «Ham&High, Jul 15»
Xeno-canto: crowdsourcing the world's bird songs
Sonogram of the first 10 seconds from a sound recording of a singing great tit, Parus major. Recorded by Nikolay Sariev in Bulgaria. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
The dawn chorus reaches its peak with the final summer arrivals
The resident birds in How Burn woods, Morpeth, on May 6 included two great spotted woodpeckers, two nuthatch, wren, great tit, blue tit and jay ... «Northumberland Gazette, Jun 15»
BTO: Sit back and enjoy your bird tables
... of our breeding birds have struggled this year, with the cold, wet and windy weather proving challenging for species like blue tit and great tit. «Bury Free Press, Jun 15»
Balsham, Weston Colville, West Wratting, West Wickham: Flower …
NATURE NOTES In his regular article for the village magazine Peter Grieve talks about a bachelor great tit, whose solitary lifestyle included ... «Cambridge News, Jun 15»
TV Review: The Comedians 1.11 “Red, White, And Working Blue”
Billy and Kristen have a great tit-for-tat revolving around Josh's proclivities for sketches involving the naughtier stuff: Billy – “It's the dick, it's the ... «Geeks of Doom, Jun 15»
Late-Rising Birds Become Cuckolds
But, like many other birds that scientists call “socially monogamous,” they sleep around. Great tit nests often contain eggs from more than one ... «Discover Magazine, Jun 15»
Bill Oddie: 'He should have called me a Great Tit'
“To be honest, if he was going to use a tit insult he might as well have called me a great tit,” he told The Sunday Telegraph. Mr Roscoe, a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
Nature notes: the great tit and the blue tit
However, their songs are much less noticeable than the ringing double notes, repeated again and again, of the great tit. The blue tit's song ... «The Times, Jan 15»
