Great Tit vs Black-capped Chickadee

Parus major 比較対象 Poecile atricapillus

Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 Great Tit Black-capped Chickadee
学名 Parus major Poecile atricapillus
Passeriformes Passeriformes
Paridae Paridae
保全状況 Least Concern Least Concern
体長 14.0 cm (5.5 in)
翼開長 24.0 cm (9.4 in) 12.9 cm (5.1 in)
体重 18.0 g (0.63 oz) 11.879999999999999 g (0.42 oz)
食性 Insects and spiders in summer, seeds and nuts in winter. A frequent and dominant visitor … --
一腹卵数 3-18 6-8
Population Trend

Size Comparison

Body Length
Great Tit 14.0 cm
Black-capped Chickadee
翼開長
Great Tit 24.0 cm
Black-capped Chickadee 12.9 cm
体重
Great Tit 18.0 g
Black-capped Chickadee 11.879999999999999 g

Habitat Comparison

共通生息地

Great Tit only

Black-capped Chickadee only

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Great Tit

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

Song & Call Comparison

Great Tit

さえずり

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.

Black-capped Chickadee

Geographic Range & Migration

Great Tit

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

Black-capped Chickadee

保全状況

Least Concern

Great Tit

Least Concern

Black-capped Chickadee

How to Tell Them Apart

Great Tit

羽毛

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

くちばし

Short, stout, dark bill

Black-capped Chickadee

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.

Black-capped Chickadee

The Black-capped Chickadee is one of North America's most beloved small birds, with its distinctive black cap and bib, white cheeks, and soft grey and buffy plumage. It inhabits deciduous and mixed forests, gardens, and suburban areas across northern North America from Alaska to Newfoundland and south through the Appalachians. It feeds on seeds, insects, and berries, and is well known for caching food for winter.

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