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Great tit (Parus major), Parc de Woluwé, Brussels (13042792905)🐦

Photo: Frank Vassen · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesPasseriformesParidae
Birds

🐦Great tit

Parus major Linnaeus, 1758

De koolmees (Parus major) is een zangvogel uit de familie van echte mezen (Paridae). In België en Nederland is het een zeer talrijke broedvogel. Het is merendeels een standvogel, maar in sommige jaren is er een wisselend aantal doortrekkers.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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2
Photos
4
Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/3,810th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great tit

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.02 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.07 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.01 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Great tit yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyParidae
  6. ›genusParus
  7. ›speciesParus major
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
All 10 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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More about the Great tit

Closest relative on this site
🐦 Barn Swallow — last shared an ancestor ≈ 43 million years ago.
In other languages
talgoxe (sv), Parus major (de), kjøttmeis (nb), Parus major (nl), mallarenga (ca), sýkora koňadra (cs) … and 27 more languages
More photos
Great tit (Parus major), Parc de Woluwé, Brussels (13042792905)034 Great tit in Pfyn Finges Photo by Giles Laurent029 Great tit standing on flowering Wisteria in Glâne District Photo by Giles Laurent
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