The largest UK tit - green and yellow with a striking glossy black head with white cheeks and a distinctive two-syllable song. It is a woodland bird which has readily adapted to man-made habitats to become a familiar garden visitor. It can be quite aggressive at a birdtable, fighting off smaller tits. In winter it joins with blue tits and others to form roaming flocks which scour gardens and countryside for food.
Insects, seeds and nuts.
This bird species has different identifying features depending on sex/age/season.
Great tits can be seen in woodlands, parks and gardens across the UK. Absent only from the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland.
Great tits can be seen all year round.
Great tit seen perching on a fence with food in its mouth and pecking at a tennis ball.
Great tit seen perching on a fence with food in its mouth and pecking at a tennis ball.
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