#0552 · 🐦 birds

Great Tit

🇳🇱 Koolmees ·Parus major

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Oscar Valencoso - Salomé Planas · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © hedera.baltica · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Antti Henttonen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © hedera.baltica · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Leonid · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Antti Henttonen · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © William Stephens · CC BY 4.0
8. © yury-redkin · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Jon J. Laysell · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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 and Northern Asia, and 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 distinctive...

base stats

NL sightings 2,927iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 252,919iNaturalist observations
weight 18.5 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 2,927 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #21 most seen of the birds in NL.
252,919 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 19 g.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).