The Marsh Tit and The Willow Tit
... Tits and other tit species, which would support the recruitment hypothesis. Where the dominant tits are very abundant then the costs of flocking may outweigh the benefits, and the subordinate species may begin avoiding the larger ...
International Wildlife Encyclopedia
Maurice Burton, Robert Burton. Although tits are primarily woodland birds , they frequently visit gardens and parks . This is particularly true of the blue tit ( above ) . Great tits work hard to provide food for their hungry. TIT I ' N ...
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Stra to Z
... TIT would both Home and Husband quit ... To follow thee for dainty Bit . 1694. MOTTEUX , Rabelais , v . ' Pant . Prog . ' Blowings , TITS , pure ones , concubines . d . 1704. BROWN , Works , ii . Never trust any of your TITS into an inn ...
British Birds
... TITS IN NORFOLK , SUFFOLK , KENT AND SCILLY . ONE of the features of the autumn - migration of 1910 on the east coast has been the great influx of Great Tits . On October 1st , I saw the first arrivals on the Lowestoft Denes ; on the ...
Library of Natural History
... tits band together with tree creepers , goldcrests , and other tits , and scour the woods in search of food ; the crested tits leading the van . They do not work the branches as minutely as other tits , preferring to range more widely ...
First Lessons in Conversational French Grammar ...
... tits œufs . Et les pe - tits œufs s'étant ou - verts , il en é - tait sor - ti qua - tre pe - tits oi - seaux sans plu - mes . Mais la mè - re a - vait des plu - mes , et el - le ré - chauf - fait les pe - tits oiseaux sous ses ai - les ...
Sketch-book of British Birds
... Tits . It is smaller than the Great Tit , and is easily distinguished by its blue crown , pale green back , blue tail and wing - coverts , white cheeks and eyebrow , THE BLUE TIT . ( Parus cæruleus . ) and yellow under - surface . The Blue ...
The Agricultural Economist and Horticultural Review
... tits . The Great tit and Blue tit are constant visitors to the garden , especially during the winter months . The Cole tit and Marsh tit are less common and spend their lives mostly in the woodlands , while the Long - tailed tit is a ...
How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds
... tits , marsh - tits , coal- NESTING - BOX E. tits , and crested tits ; sparrows cannot enter it , but neither can other birds , except the small tits , not even the great tit . Box B is for starlings , greater spotted woodpeckers ...
Nature Notes
... Tits ? ( p . 57 ) . -Here they are at Malvern Wells . Great tits , tom tits , coal tits , and little marsh tits come and go the livelong day . They have been with us through the intense frost , five of them frequently clinging to the ...
The snowdrop papers, by messrs Tit, Tinkle [and others] ed. by sir Florizel Bluebell
... Tit , M.P .; Tinkle , M.P .; Pippin , M.P .; Pop , M.P .; Perry , M.P .; Winkle , M.P .; and Cherryblossom , M.P. After considerable discussion , it was arranged that each Hon'ble Member should write a separate tale , beginning with Mr. Tit ...
The Codes of California as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Thirty-sixth Session of the Legislature, 1905 ...
... tit . Wharves . DOCUMENTS number to be printed by state printer , DOGS 106 . impounding , found at large , 705 143 , 144 . DOMICILE distinguished from residence , 38 . DRAFTS . See tits . National Guard ; State Militia . DRAINAGE . See tit ...
The Selborne Magazine
... Tits and not Sparrows . - Owing to our good Editor's indulgence in allowing my memos . to appear in NATURE NOTES , I frequently receive letters on many matters . Not long ago a lady wrote to say she had coaxed tits to her window which ...
Country Life
... tits and a few inquisitive robins thus caught , I have on two occasions seen the leg of a small bird in one of these traps , the bird itself having escaped , and a robin was pointed out to me which had suffered the amputation of one of ...
The Selborne Magazine and "Nature Notes," the Organ of the Selborne Society ....
these Blue Tits when I was a lad of eighteen . It don't matter to you if you'll excuse me saying so - how I got ' em . P'raps I bought ' em , or may be I took this little ' un off her nest , Blue Tits take a deal of moving , and the ...
The Smaller British Birds. With Descriptions of Their Nests, Eggs, Habits, Etc
... Tits become somewhat gregarious , going about in small flocks , which , as spring approaches , pair off , and begin to look out for a nesting place . The pairs are said sometimes to ... TIT , ( Parus caudatus . TITS , OR TITMICE . 13.
Scottish Naturalist and Journal of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science
... Tit ; the usual number being from seven to nine . The time of nesting is mid - May . During winter the Crested Tit travels about in company with the Long - tailed and other Tits , and often a pair of Tree- creepers . They are then ...
Cat and Bird Stories from the "Spectator"
... tit architecture . A pair of great - tits have built their nests in the iron chimney of a disused greenhouse- stove . The pipe is perpendicular , of 3 inches diameter , and is about 12 feet long . The nest is constructed about 6 feet ...
The Condor
... tits more than one hundred yards up along the sides of a canyon , and it may be that relatively small hills , espe- cially when sparsely clothed with vegetation , form to them a somewhat effect- ual barrier . I think it extremely ...
The Encyclopedia Americana
... tits of the Old World , seven species occur in Great Britain , but one of them , the crested tit ( Parus cristatus ) , is only an acciden- tal visitor . The great tit ( P. major ) is the largest European species , though only about the ...