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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribut	Great Tit	Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Nom scientifique	Parus major	Poecile rufescens
Ordre	Passeriformes	Passeriformes
Famille	Paridae	Paridae
Statut de conservation	Least Concern	Least Concern
Longueur	14,0 cm (5.5 in)	—
Envergure	24,0 cm (9.4 in)	12,2 cm (4.8 in)
Poids	18,0 g (0.63 oz)	9,875 g (0.35 oz)
Régime alimentaire	Insects and spiders in summer, seeds and nuts in winter. A frequent and dominant visitor …	--
Taille de la couvée	3-18	1-11
Population Trend	—	—

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Size Comparison

Body Length

Great Tit 14,0 cm

Chestnut-backed Chickadee —

Envergure

Great Tit 24,0 cm

Chestnut-backed Chickadee 12,2 cm

Poids

Great Tit 18,0 g

Chestnut-backed Chickadee 9,875 g

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Habitat Comparison

Habitats partagés

🌲 Forest

Great Tit only

🌾 Grassland

Chestnut-backed Chickadee only

Aucun(e)

Great Tit

Deciduous and mixed woodland, parks, gardens, and hedgerows. Readily uses nest boxes. Highly adaptable to human environments.

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Song & Call Comparison

Great Tit

Chant

A repetitive, teacher-teacher 'tee-cher, tee-cher, tee-cher'. Also gives ringing 'pink-pink' alarm. Highly versatile singer; over 40 song variants recorded from a single male.

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

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Geographic Range & Migration

Great Tit

Widespread across Europe and Asia from Britain to Japan, and south to North Africa and Southeast Asia.

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

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Statut de conservation

Least Concern

Great Tit

Least Concern

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

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How to Tell Them Apart

Great Tit

Plumage

Blue-black head with white cheeks. Olive-green back, yellow underparts with a broad black central stripe. White wing bar and blue-grey tail.

Bec

Short, stout, dark bill

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

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About These Birds

Great Tit

The great tit is the largest European tit and one of the most studied wild birds in the world. Research at Wytham Woods in Oxford has monitored great tit populations since the 1940s, contributing enormously to ecology and evolution. These innovative birds famously learned to open milk bottle tops in 20th-century Britain.

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

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