Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleus
Aves › Passeriformes › Paridae › Cyanistes
Conservation status: least_concern
The Blue Tit is a small, colorful songbird with a distinctive bright blue cap and wings contrasted by yellow underparts and a white face marked with a dark eye-stripe. You'll recognize it by its acrobatic feeding style as it hangs upside down from branches and twigs, often visiting garden bird feeders in winter.
How To Identify
Small, stocky passerine characterized by a vibrant cobalt-blue cap that sharply contrasts with its bright yellow breast and pale greyish back. Its energetic posture and small size make it one of Europe’s most noticeable garden birds.
Habitat
The Blue Tit lives in broadleaved woodland and gardens.
Behaviour
The Blue Tit is acrobatic, hanging upside down to reach caterpillars on leaf undersides.
Did You Know?
Famous for learning to open foil milk-bottle tops — a behaviour that spread culturally across Europe.
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