Great tit (scientific name: Parus major) is a small and medium-sized bird with a body length of 13-15 cm. The entire head is black, with a large white spot on each side of the head. The upper body is blue-gray, and the back is green. The underparts are white, and there is a broad central longitudinal stripe on the chest and abdomen that connects with the chin and throat in black. It inhabits secondary broad-leaved forests, broad-leaved forests and mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests in low mountains and piedmont regions, as well as in and out of artificial forests and coniferous forests. Sex is more lively and bold, not afraid of people. It is agile, often jumping between branches, or flying from one tree to another. It mainly feeds on insects such as golden bugs, scarabs, poisonous moth larvae, stinging moth larvae, inchworm moth larvae, Culex mosquitoes, flower flies, ants, bees, pine caterpillars, floating dust, stink bugs, ladybugs, and katydids. Distributed in China, Northwest Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Europe, Central Asia, Siberia, Far East, North Korea, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Indochina and Indonesia. Chinese name: Great Tit
Latin name: Parus major
Alternative name: Grey Tit
Binary name: Tit
World: Animal Kingdom
phylum: Chordate
Class: Avian
Order: Passerine
Family: Finch
Genus: Chickadee
Species: Great tit
Subspecies: 34 subspecies
Named and dated: Linnaeus, 1758
English name: Great Tit
Forehead, Eye First, Top of Head, Pillow And the upper part of the back of the neck is bluish black, and the entire cheeks, ear feathers and the side of the neck below the eyes are white, forming a nearly triangular white spot. The black on the upper part of the back of the neck extends along the leukoplakia to the left and right sides of the neck, forming a black band that connects with the black on the chin, throat and chest. The upper back and shoulders are yellow-green, with a narrow white horizontal band between the upper back and the black on the back of the neck; the lower back to the upper tail coverts are blue-gray, the central pair of tail feathers are also blue-grey, and the feathers are black. The rest of the tail feathers are black-brown inside and blue-gray outside. The outermost pair of tail feathers is white, with only a broad black-brown feather fringe inside, and the second pair of outer tail feathers have white wedge-shaped spots at the ends. The upper wing coverts are dark brown, with a blue-gray outer edge, and the large coverts have a broad gray-white tip, forming a prominent gray-white wing band. The flight feathers are black-brown, with blue-gray feather edges. Except for the outermost two of the primary flight feathers, the rest of the outer feathers have gray-white feather edges; The flight feathers have a broad gray-white fringe. Chin, throat and chest are bright blue-black, the rest of the lower body is white, and there is a broad black longitudinal band in the middle, the front end is connected with the chest black, and it extends backward to the undertail coverts, and sometimes expands into a triangle under the tail coverts; axillary Feather white.
The plumage color of the female bird is similar to that of the male bird, but the body color is slightly duller, lacking luster, and the black longitudinal stripes on the abdomen are thinner.
The plumage color of the juvenile bird is similar to that of the adult bird, but the black part is lighter and brownish, lacking luster, the black spot on the throat is smaller, the belly has no black longitudinal stripes or the black longitudinal stripes are not obvious, and the gray and The white part is yellow-green. [2]
Iris brown or dark brown, bill dark brown or black, feet dark brown or purple brown.
Size measurement: body weight ♂11.8-15.5g, ♀13-17g; body length ♂120-148mm, ♀116-153mm; mouth peak ♂9-11mm, ♀8-11 mm; wing ♂64 -73mm, ♀61-72mm; Tail ♂57-74mm, ♀57-68mm; Tail ♂16-23mm, ♀16-20mm (North China subspecies).
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