Great Tits Had Paler Yellow Plumage in More Built-Up Urban Territories
Across 838 observations from six European cities, great tits breeding in territories with more impervious surface had lower…
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Veterinary Insecticides Were Found in Great Tit Nests in Both Urban and Protected Forest Habitats
Researchers analysed fur-containing material from 63 Great Tit nests in Hungary. Urban nests contained more insecticides and higher…
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Usutu Virus RNA Was Found Nearly Three Times as Often as West Nile Virus RNA in Southern France
Among 2,533 wild birds from 69 species in southern France, Usutu virus RNA was detected in 12.0% and…
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Male and Female Great Tits Built Winter Pair Bonds Differently
Great tits increasingly associated with future breeding partners through winter, but sex and age shaped how they divided…
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Record May Heatwave Reduced Breeding Success and Nestling Mass in Great Tits and Eurasian Blue Tits
Compared with equivalent parts of the breeding season in 1978–2025, fledgling number declined by 4.5 nestlings in 2026…
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Autumn Movement Timing Stayed Stable as Wings Became Rounder in Great and Eurasian Blue Tits
Hungarian ringing data from 2004–2024 found stable autumn movement timing in great and Eurasian blue tits, while body…
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PFAS Exposure Was Linked to Oxidative Stress in Starling Chicks, but Not to Similar Changes in Great Tits
Eggs near an Italian fluoropolymer plant contained up to ten times more PFAS. Starling nestlings showed signs of…
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A Single High Lead Dose Altered Blood Cells in Great Tit Chicks
A single high experimental lead dose made red blood cells smaller and increased nuclear abnormalities in great tit…
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Problem-Solving Great Tits Fed Chicks More Often and Delivered More Prey Biomass
In a wild great tit population on Gotland, problem-solvers fed their chicks more often and delivered more estimated…
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Great Tit and Eurasian Blue Tit Eggs Contained Different Mixes of PFOS Isomers
Researchers analysed 41 eggs from a contaminated industrial site in Belgium and detected both linear and branched PFAS…
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Great Tit Chicks in Urban and Agricultural Sites Showed the Highest Combined Physiological Stress
A study of 198 great tit nestlings from 44 nests in Veneto found the highest Integrated Biomarker Response…
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Mean Eurasian Blue Tit Winter Count Rose Fourfold in Finnish Urban Survey Plots
Across 31 Finnish settlements, mean Eurasian blue tit counts rose from 2.8 birds per standardised urban plot in…
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Three Invasive Songbirds Had Higher Heat-Tolerance Limits Than Native Mediterranean Counterparts
Three invasive songbirds had heat-tolerance limits averaging 6.2 °C higher than three native species including European goldfinch and…
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Second Broods Revealed an Early-Breeding Advantage in Urban and Forest Great Tits
A 13-year study found that early great tit breeders produced more fledglings across the full season because they…
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Great Tits Used Different Nest Materials After Wildfire, While Fledging Success Was Higher at Burned Sites
In northeastern Algeria, great tits in forest burned in 2019 used less moss and more fibres and fine…
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Urban-Origin Great Tits Retained Smaller Black Ties in a Shared Rearing Environment
Great tits from urban populations retained smaller black breast stripes and less saturated yellow plumage when raised under…
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Feather Element Profiles Differed Between Farmland- and Forest-associated Songbirds
At one Polish winter feeding site, greenfinches and goldfinches showed wider variation in feather element profiles than two…
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Great Tits Advanced Egg-Laying by More Than Two Weeks and Kept Breeding Temperatures Stable
From 1965 to 2023, great tits at Wytham Woods advanced egg-laying by 16.5 days while the temperatures they…
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Juvenile Great Tits Reacted More Strongly to Groups of Mobbing Callers
Wild juvenile great tits were more likely to approach mobbing calls representing several birds than a lone caller,…
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Great Tit Chicks Adjusted Mouth Colour When Nest Light Changed
A field experiment found that parts of great tit chicks’ bills became redder in brighter nests and less…
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