Great Tit vs Black-lored Tit

Parus major 对比 Machlolophus xanthogenys

Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 Great Tit Black-lored Tit
学名 Parus major Machlolophus xanthogenys
Passeriformes Passeriformes
Paridae Paridae
保护状况 Least Concern Least Concern
体长 14.0 cm (5.5 in)
翼展 24.0 cm (9.4 in) 14.2 cm (5.6 in)
体重 18.0 g (0.63 oz) 15.800000000000002 g (0.56 oz)
食性 Insects and spiders in summer, seeds and nuts in winter. A frequent and dominant visitor … --
产卵数 3-18 4-5
Population Trend

Size Comparison

Body Length
Great Tit 14.0 cm
Black-lored Tit
翼展
Great Tit 24.0 cm
Black-lored Tit 14.2 cm
体重
Great Tit 18.0 g
Black-lored Tit 15.800000000000002 g

Habitat Comparison

共同栖息地

Great Tit only

Black-lored Tit only

Great Tit

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

Song & Call Comparison

Great Tit

鸣唱

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-lored Tit

Geographic Range & Migration

Great Tit

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

Black-lored Tit

保护状况

Least Concern

Great Tit

Least Concern

Black-lored Tit

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.

Short, stout, dark bill

Black-lored Tit

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-lored Tit

The Black-lored Tit is a handsome, medium-sized tit with yellow cheeks, black lores and crown stripe, olive-green upperparts, and yellow underparts. It inhabits Himalayan foothills and adjacent hills from Pakistan through India to Vietnam, dwelling in broadleaf and mixed forest at mid elevations. It is an active forager, gleaning insects, caterpillars, and seeds from tree bark and foliage.

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