Full Pupp Presents: The Greatest Tits, Vol. 1

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a b Royoma, T (1970). "Factors governing the hunting behaviour and selection of food by the Great Tit ( Parus major L.)". Journal of Animal Ecology. 39 (3): 619–668. doi: 10.2307/2858. JSTOR 2858. a b Mlíkovský, Jiří (26 August 2011). "Nomenclatural and taxonomic status of bird taxa (Aves) described by an ornithological swindler, Josef Prokop Pražák (1870–1904)". Zootaxa. 3005 (3005): 45–68. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3005.1.2. The great tit is a popular garden bird due to its acrobatic performances when feeding on nuts or seed. Its willingness to move into nest boxes has made it a valuable study subject in ornithology; it has been particularly useful as a model for the study of the evolution of various life-history traits, particularly clutch size. [54] A study of a literature database search found 1,349 articles relating to Parus major for the period between 1969 and 2002. [6] Mols, C; Visser, M; Jones, Peter (2007). Jones, Peter (ed.). "Great Tits ( Parus major) Reduce Caterpillar Damage in Commercial Apple Orchards". PLOS ONE. 2 (2): e202. Bibcode: 2007PLoSO...2..202M. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000202. PMC 1784073. PMID 17285148.

Fitze, PS; Kölliker M; Heinz Richner (2003). "Effects of Common Origin and Common Environment on Nestling Plumage Coloration in the Great Tit ( Parus major)". Evolution. 57 (1): 144–150. doi: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00222.x. PMID 12643574. S2CID 24748894. Estók, Péter; Zsebők, Sándor; Siemers, Björn M (2010). "Great tits search for, capture, kill and eat hibernating bats". Biology Letters. 6 (1): 59–62. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0611. PMC 2817260. PMID 19740892. Hunter, Malcolm L.; Krebs, John R. (October 1979). "Geographical Variation in the Song of the Great Tit (Parus major) in Relation to Ecological Factors". The Journal of Animal Ecology. 48 (3): 759. doi: 10.2307/4194. JSTOR 4194. The great tit was described under its current binomial name by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. [3] Its scientific name is derived from the Latin parus "tit" and maior "larger". [4] Francis Willughby had used the name in the 17th century. [5] The 11 subspecies of the cinereous tit were once lumped with the great tit but recent genetic and bioacoustic studies now separate that group as a distinct speciesStrohbach, Sabine; Curio, Eberhard; Bathen, Andrea; Epplen, Jorg; Lubjuhn, Thomas (1998). "Extrapair paternity in the great tit ( Parus major): a test of the "good genes" hypothesis". Behavioral Ecology. 9 (4): 388–396. doi: 10.1093/beheco/9.4.388.

Dell'Amore, Christine (20 January 2010). "Flashier Great Tit Birds Produce Stronger Sperm". National Geographic . Retrieved 21 January 2010. Inbreeding depression occurs when the offspring produced as a result of a mating between close relatives show reduced fitness. The reduced fitness is generally considered to be a consequence of the increased expression of deleterious recessive alleles in these offspring. In natural populations of P. major, inbreeding is avoided by dispersal of individuals from their birthplace, which reduces the chance of mating with a close relative. [44] Ecology Pigeault, Romain; Cozzarolo, Camille-Sophie; Glaizot, Olivier; Christe, Philippe (2020). "Effect of age, haemosporidian infection and body condition on pair composition and reproductive success in Great Tits Parus major" (PDF). Ibis. 162 (3): 613–626. doi: 10.1111/ibi.12774. ISSN 1474-919X. S2CID 202013338. Dunn, Euan (1977). "Predation by weasels ( Mustela nivalis) on breeding tits ( Parus spp.) in relation to the density of tits and rodents". Journal of Animal Ecology. 46 (2): 633–652. doi: 10.2307/3835. JSTOR 3835. Galván, Ismael; Amo, Luisa; Sanz, Juan J. (2008). "Ultraviolet-blue reflectance of some nestling plumage patches mediates parental favouritism in great tits Parus major". Journal of Avian Biology. 39 (3): 277–82. doi: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2008.04273.x.

The great tit is generally not migratory. Pairs will usually remain near or in their territory year round, even in the northern parts of their range. Young birds will disperse from their parents' territory, but usually not far. Populations may become irruptive in poor or harsh winters, meaning that groups of up to a thousand birds may unpredictably move from northern Europe to the Baltic and also to Netherlands, Britain, even as far as the southern Balkans. [22] Palmer TS (1893). The danger of introducing noxious animals and birds. US Department of Agriculture. pp.104–105. The great tit ( Parus major) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common species throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and east across the Palearctic to the Amur River, south to parts of North Africa where it is generally resident in any sort of woodland; most great tits do not migrate except in extremely harsh winters. Until 2005 this species was lumped with numerous other subspecies. DNA studies have shown these other subspecies to be distinct from the great tit and these have now been separated as two distinct species, the cinereous tit ( Parus cinereus) of southern Asia, and the Japanese tit ( Parus minor) of East Asia. The great tit remains the most widespread species in the genus Parus. a b BirdLife International (2016). Parus major. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22735990A87431138.en