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Blue Tit - Cyanistes caeruleus
Its colourful mix of blue, yellow, white and green make the blue tit one of the most attractive resident garden birds. Sexes similar.
A common woodland and garden bird, also seen along hedgerows and in most places with trees and bushes
All year round
Almost any garden with a peanut feeder will attract Blue Tits and they readily breed in nest boxes. In winter they form flocks with other tit species. The birds move around to many gardens, sampling the food offerings, and garden attracting several birds to a bird table at any one time, may in fact be feeding 20 or more.
Common and widespread in Britain
Common as a breeding bird in Leicestershire and Rutland
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Species profile
- Common names
- Blue Tit, Eurasian Blue Tit
- Species group:
- Birds
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Passeriformes
- Family:
- Paridae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1824
- First record:
- 14/11/1993 (Ian Retson)
- Last record:
- 20/04/2024 (Pugh, Dylan)
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