BirdParidae
Eurasian Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleus
- Habitat
- Deciduous woodland, parks, gardens, hedgerows
- IUCN status
- LCLeast Concern
- Wingspan
- ~19 cm
Ecological relationships
Feeds on
Pedunculate OakQuercus roburNestling diet is dominated by oak caterpillars during the critical growth window. Blue Tit breeding phenology has evolved to synchronise with oak bud-burst - a flagship example in climate change ecology (Visser et al.; Charmantier et al. 2008).