Parus major · Irish: Meantán Mór

Ireland's biggest tit, with a bold black tie down its chest.

Habitat: Gardens, parks and woodland. | Season: All year

Identification

• Black head with white cheeks
• Olive-green back; yellow breast split by a black central stripe (broader in males)

Behaviour

Song is a bright, repeated "teacher-teacher"; often dominant at feeders, chasing off smaller tits.

Did you know?

Great and Blue Tits famously learned, in the early 20th century, to peck through the foil caps of milk bottles left on doorsteps to reach the cream — a behaviour that spread from bird to bird across whole regions.

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