Tits cope well with warming

Correction:Great tits cope well with warming

One of Britain's birds, the Great Tit, appears to be coping well as climate change, caused by global warming, alters the availability of a vital food.

Researchers have found that great tits are their laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to do, thus keeping in step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars they feed on.

THE GREAT TIT

Latin name

Parus major

Family

Tits (Paridae)

Overview:

The largest UK tit (green and yellow with a striking glossy black head with white cheeks and a distinctive two-syllable song), is a woodland bird which has readily adapted to man-made habitats to become a familiar garden visitor.

It can be quite aggressive when feeding at a bird-table, fighting off smaller tits.

In winter it joins with blue tits and other tits to form roaming flocks which scour gardens and countryside for food.

Other types of tit, include the Blue Tit, and the Coal Tit.

One of the few heartening bits of news regarding the effects of global warming.

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-Under the wide open sky