In Willow
Tit winter flocks, adults are dominant over yearlings, and males over females (Hogstad 1987, Koivula and Orell 1988, Lahti et al.
Time and food dependence in willow tit winter survival
Community spirit Co-operation is key to the survival of the long-tailed
titGetting a bird's eye view as nature's pecking order plays out
Willow
tits are not as brightly coloured as other
tits, but they are still lovely birds.
How to become part of a huge nature reserve; CONNECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT FOR AREA'S WILDLIFE
A pair of blue
tits has been in and out of the box lately and things are looking very hopeful.
GO WILDWITH ERIC PAYLOR
Volunteer BTO nest recorder Henry Cook is giving Willow
Tits a hand at a site in Denbighshire.
BIRD NOTES With Julian Hughes
tailed
tit In West Yorkshire the most commonly seen bird was the house sparrow, with an average of 3.86 per garden, followed by the starling (3.04) and blackbird (2.69).
Sparrow in top spot but tiny bird flies up the chart
County Durham: House sparrow; starling; blackbird; blue
tit; chaffinch; great
tit; jackdaw; robin; collared dove; woodpigeon.
18,000 turn out in North East to take part in garden birdwatch event; Record response in North East helps track fortunes of visiting species
Last winter, the kitchen window bird table in my garden attracted great spotted woodpeckers, long-tailed
tits, bramblings, siskins, fieldfares and even a red squirrel that visited every morning.
Set a table for hungry birds this winter.. Talk on the wild side with Keith Broomfield
Long tailed
tit The long-tailed
tit makes a tennis-ball sized nest out of moss and spiders' webs.
Tips to aid your Big Birdwatch; Nature Notes
Now, a new research has shown that male blue
tits' (Cyanistes caeruleus) parental behaviour is determined by female ornamentation (ultraviolet coloration of the crown), as predicted by the differential allocation hypothesis (DAH).
Male birds with attractive mates show better chick-rearing behaviour
The three most popular Christmas card
tit stars are among the birds that are known to struggle most during the cold weather.
Robin knocked off top card spot
Similarly, the dominant species, i.e., the Crested
Tit, cached sunflower seeds closer to the feeder than did the subdominant Willow
Tits, in particular in the situation when birds were caching seeds for a long time from the same place (Table 3).
Food caching by willow and crested tits: a test of scatterhoarding models
There was a fall in sightings of wrens and long-tailed
tits, two of the smallest species to visit gardens.
Sparrow keeps its place in top branch
TOP TEN SIGHTINGS IN REGION Tyne and Wear: starling; house sparrow; blackbird; woodpigeon; blue
tit; goldfinch; magpie; feral pigeon; robin; jackdaw.
Now our little burrowers can borrow nesting chamber
In fact, the willow
tit is the most endangered small bird in the UK, with numbers plummeting some 97 per cent since 1980.
Save our willows