Saturday, January 25, 2020

Great Tit

The Ruffini park (locally known as "the New Valentino") is the 16th largest park in the city of Turin. It extends for a size of about 130,000 m², inserted in the Pozzo Strada district.
It was the first time I came to this park, was delighted to see many squirrels wondering around, although they shown to be less daring than those in Valentino Park, but still they came forward to pick up the nuts I threw at them.
Then, came this little bird and it started to rob the nuts from the squirrels.




After some research online, I found out that it is a great tit ( what a name! ).


The great tit (Parus major) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common species throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central and Northern Asia, and parts of North Africa where it is generally resident in any sort of woodland; most great tits do not migrate except in extremely harsh winters. Until 2005 this species was lumped with numerous other subspecies. DNA studies have shown these other subspecies to be distinctive from the great tit and these have now been separated as two distinct species, the cinereous tit of southern Asia, and the Japanese tit of East Asia. The great tit remains the most widespread species in the genus Parus


 The great tit is a distinctive bird with a black head and neck, prominent white cheeks, olive upperparts and yellow underparts, with some variation amongst the numerous subspecies.

Now, I will tell my friends that I had gone to the Ruffini park to take photos of some Great Tits!



2 comments:

JudithK said...

And so you have. Nice to see them. Ha.

William Kendall said...

Quite pretty!