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The Coal Tit, Parus ater is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout Europe and northern Asia. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate.
A large white nape spot on the black head is the field mark of the Coal Tit; the head, throat and neck are glossy blue-black, setting off the white on the nape and sides of the face; the back and wings are olive-brown shading to brownish fawn on the rump; the white tips of the coverts show as a double bar on the wing. The under parts are white shading through buff to rufous on the flanks. The bill is black; the legs lead-coloured and irides dark brown. The young bird is duller, the black head having so sheen, and the whites on nape and cheeks are tinged with yellow.
The British race P. a. britannicus has an olive brown back, distinguishing it from the nominate continental race in which the back is bluish grey.
Coal Tits will form small flocks in winter with other tits. This species resembles other tits in acrobatic skill and restless activity, though it more frequently pitches on a trunk, and in little hops imitates the Treecreeper. Its food is similar to that of the others; it is keen on beechmast, picks out the seeds from larchThis article is about larch trees. About 12; see text Larches are conifers in the genus Larix in the family Pinaceae. They are deciduous trees, growing from 15-50 m tall, and are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in t and firFirs Abies are a genus of between 45-55 species of evergreen conifers in the family Pinaceae. All are trees, reaching heights of 10-80 m tall and trunk diameters of 0. 5-4 m when mature. Firs can be distinguished from other members of the pine family by t cones, and joins RedpollRedpolls Common Redpoll : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Passeriformes : Fringillidae Carduelis Carduelis flammea ''Carduelis cabaret ''Carduelis hornemanni The Redpolls are a group of small passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae which have characs and SiskinSiskins : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Passeriformes Fringillidae Genera Carduelis Serinus A number of small birds in the finch family Fringillidae are named as siskins . These are mainly some of the small species in the genus Carduelis with largely yellos in birches and alders. During these food hunts it keeps up an incessant short flight or flock call; the song, if song it can be called, is a strident "if-he, if-he, iy-he", heard most frequently from January to June, but also in autumn. One variant of this song or call ends with a sharp "ichi".
A favourite nesting site is a ho1e in a rotting tree-stump, often low down, and the nest is deep within the hole; holes in the ground, burrows of miceFor the computer peripheral, see computer mouse. A mouse is a mammal that belongs to one of numerous species of small rodents in the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. Mus musculus, the common house mouse (or laboratory mouse) is or rabbitRabbit usually refers to the European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus a native of southern Europe. It has been widely introduced elsewhere often with devastating effects on local biodiversity. Rabbits in the wild The European Rabbit is a small grey-brown mams, chinks between the stones in walls, old nests of MagpiePica Urocissa Cyanopica Cissa The magpies are medium to large, often colorful and noisy passerine birds in the crow family, Corvidae. They are closely allied to the jays and treepies. The names 'jay', 'treepie' and 'magpie' are to a certain extent interchs or other large birds, and squirrelSeveral, see text Squirrel is the common name for rodents of the family Sciuridae. In everyday speech in the English-speaking world it usually refers to members of the genera Sciurus and Tamasciurus''. These typical members of the family are tree squirrel dreys are also occupied. The materials, moss, hair and grass, are closely felted together, and rabbit fur or feathers added for lining; seven to eleven red spotted white eggs of the usual tit type are laid, as a rule, in May, but second broods are rare.
Taxonomic note: Most authorities treat the Coal Tit in the subgenus Periparus within a broad view of the genus Parus, but the American Ornithologists' Union treats Periparus as a distinct genus, with the Coal Tit as Periparus ater.
