great tit

noun

1. an Old World titmouse, Parus major, yellowish green above with white cheeks.

great tit

noun

1. a large common Eurasian tit, Parus major, with yellow-and-black underparts and a black-and-white head

Word History and Origins

Origin of great tit¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

There were some, but there were also colorful ones never seen in the Washington area — or even in the United States, i.e., a great tit — unique to the United Kingdom and Europe, and a silvereye, a resident of Australia.

From Washington Post

In Wytham Wood this April - the UK's most scientifically studied woodland - great tit hatchlings emerged from their eggs up to three weeks earlier than they would have done in the 1940s.

From BBC

But the longest-running of the Wytham Woods experiments is the great tit project.

From BBC

"We can ask how productivity and survival change over time, as well as behaviours like dispersal and migration," says Prof Ben Sheldon from Oxford University, who currently leads the great tit project.

From BBC

Two European birds, the great tit and the blue tit, locate insects that are attacking pine trees by detecting the volatile chemicals the stressed trees release, ecologist Elina Mäntylä of the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences and colleagues reported in the September 2020 issue of Ecology and Evolution.

From Science Magazine