Key information
A colourful mix of blue, yellow, white and green makes the blue tit one of our most attractive and most recognisable garden visitors. In winter, family flocks join up with other tits as they search for food. A garden with four or five blue tits at a feeder at any one time may be feeding 20 or more.
What they eat:
Insects, caterpillars, seeds and nuts.
Measurements:
- Length:
- 12cm
- Wingspan:
- 18cm
- Weight:
- 11g
Population:
- UK breeding:
- 3,600,000 territories
- UK wintering:
- 15 million birds
- Europe:
- 20-44 million pairs
Identifying features:
This bird species has different identifying features depending on sex/age/season.
Blue tit
Blue tit (juvenile)
