Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)

 

 

The Blue Tit is a smallish songbird of the tits familiy and a common breeding bird to most of the European continent. It can easily be identified by its small blue scull cap (crown), white head with black eye-stripe, black neck and greenish-blue back and rump; the underparts are yellow. The Blue Tit is a very lively bird which hardly ever remains for long on the same spot.

 

The Blue Tit can be found in decideous and mixed woodland and it is most common to gardens, green yards, graveyards and parks. Blue Tits like to attend to bird tables / feedings in gardens and green yards, where it mixes with other tits and songbirds. During autumn in central Europe because northern populations begin to move southwards to reach their wintering areas. It is reccomendable to offer bird feedings to blue tits all year.

 

 

 

Bird Facts: Blue Tit

 

Breeding – Clutch – Measurements – Habitat – Food - Threats

 

Taxonomy:

Order: Passerines (Passeriformes)

Family: Paridae

Genus: Parus

Species: Blue Tit

 

Scientific Name: Parus [caeruleus] caeruleus

 

Names and Synonymes of the Blue Tit

 

Name in German: Blaumeise

Name in Czech: Sýkora modřinka

Name in Slovak: Sýkorka belasá

Name in Hungarian: Kék cinege

Name in Croat: Plavetna Sjenica

Name in French: Mésange bleue

Name in Spanish: Herrerillo Común

Name in Portuguese: Chapim-azul

Name in Italian: Cinciarella

Name in Dutch: Pimpelmees

Name in Finish: Sinitiainen

Name in Norwegian: Blåmeis

Name in Danish: Blåmejse

Name in Swedish: Blåmes

Name in Polnisch: Modraszka

Name in Russian: Лазоревка

Name in Greek: Γαλαζοπαπαδίτσα

Name in Turkey: Ak Mavi Baştankara

 

Distribution – Movements – Habitat – Behaviour