Birdwatching - 1703 🐦

🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater)

📚 Peri (Greek) very, hugely;
📚 Parus (lat.) Tit
📚 ater (lat.) black, dark

This bird is very similar to the great tit we are used to, which we see in the winter in the courtyards of cities. However, it is smaller in size, for which in the old days it was called the "little tit", and dark colors predominate in the plumage.

It is less common, and prefers coniferous forests. But in the spring I meet these birds in mixed forests, where they spend the mating season. Another difference is that, unlike the great tit, it is able to store food, which indicates that the bird is more wild.