How much do you know about
blue tits?
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1 Which of these pictures has nothing to do with blue tits?
2 Blue tits are great opportunists. They became notorious in the 1960s for:
a) Stealing shiny objects like jewellery and money to hoard in their nests
b) Dodging parenthood by laying their eggs in other birds’ nests
c) Teaching each other to peck through doorstep milk bottle tops to get at the cream
3 How many eggs will a blue tit normally lay in a clutch?
a) 10 - 12
b) 6 - 9
c) 3 - 5
4 They lay their eggs at a time when there will be an abundance of
a) Spiders
b) Green caterpillars
c) Peanuts
5 When they are not in your garden, bluetits prefer to live
a) In woodlands and hedges
b) On heaths and moorlands
c) Around sand dunes
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Answers
1 b) This picture is of a great tit feeding its young
2 c) Sometimes they even followed milk floats and swooped when a delivery was made!
3 a) Between ten and twelve – blue tits have one of the largest clutch sizes of all birds
4 b) Green caterpillars – each chick can eat 100 caterpillars a day
5 a) Woodlands and hedges
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