Great Tit
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The Great Tit is the largest European tit - about the size of a House Sparrow. The crown, nape and throat are black. The cheeks are white. The breast and belly are yellow with a black stripe down the centre. There is a white wing bar across the blue-grey wings. The back is a yellowish-green and the rump is blue-grey. Legs are grey-blue and the bill is black. The sexes can be told apart by the width of the black stripe down the breast - the males have a broader stripe than the females. Juveniles are paler and duller with yellowish cheeks and wing bar.
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Great tits feed on insects, such as caterpillars and spiders, seeds, like beech mast, and berries. In the garden they will feed from hanging feeders containing nuts and seeds, such as sunflower hearts, or on kitchen scraps from bird tables. They sometimes follow Coal Tits to their caches of seeds in the hanging baskets, etc.