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Blue Tit
You can see blue tits all year round. They are commonly found in Europe, although they have been spotted as far away as Turkey. In Europe, you’ll usually see them in gardens, parks and woodlands.
Their head, tail and wing feathers are a bright blue – but you can also recognise them because of their white face, black strip along their eyeline, and their yellowish-green underbelly. Male and female blue tits look almost identical, except that the blue on a male blue tit is even brighter than it is on a female.
Adult blue tits eat a variety of seeds and insects, but blue tit chicks are fed caterpillars – one chick can eat up to 100 caterpillars a day!
