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You can find a picture of a great tit at the german wikipedia: de:Bild:Parus_major.jpg -- de:Hokanomono
Can somebody explain why "Great Tit" is capitalized like a proper noun? Craw 11:37, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
Read this page without laughing. I dare you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.240.96.82 ( talk) 18:34, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
The anon ip who redirected Big tits to this article deserves a barnstar. lol! -- OlEnglish ( Talk) 22:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
btw, see Wikipedia:Featured redirects for a laugh. ;) -- œ ™ 00:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
There is some text in here which seem rather irrelevant: "However, human habitat also has an effect on the Great Tit. The song of the Great Tit has been observed to change in noise polluted urban environments. In areas with low frequency background noise pollution, the song has a higher frequency than in quieter areas." (this refers to a paper entitled "Birds sing at a higher pitch in urban noise") Birdsong is used to advertise territory & presence to potential competitors & mates, and birds naturally vary their songs so they may be heard better in their surroundings whether those are dense forest or open fields, so this seems to be heavily anthropomorphizing ("birds sing when they're happy" etc.). If this can't be improved it would be better deleted. Innotata 16:45, 29 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Innotata ( talk • contribs)
Regarding the splitting out of the taxanomic groups, it is argued in this paper that the Turkestan Tit should be lumped with this species even as the the Japanese and Cinereus Tits should be split out (contra HBW 2007 but as done by IOC). Should we take the plunge and lump? Sabine's Sunbird talk 05:28, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
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The dimensions and weights I have for this species are pretty vague. Given that the species has been split and insular and tropical forms (which tend to be at the extremes) have been removed, does anyone have some sources on the weights and sizes of remaining subspecies? Sabine's Sunbird talk 06:29, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
The following sentence is too heavily scientific for the lead section: "In the past this species was considered a ring species with several subspecies covering a wide distribution, but these have now been separated as the Cinereous Tit of southern Asia, and the Japanese Tit of East Asia." Can it be moved and/or re-written so that a layperson would understand it? I tried reading the article on ring species, and it's pretty dense. I am not convinced this concept holds any interest for the layperson. Please consider, what is the salient point, and is it really such a basic truth about the bird that it needs to be in the lead section? Anyway, it sounds like the notion of the Great Tit as a ring species is out-dated, so if that is the case, please explain (in the article) why it is being mentioned at all.-- Brambleshire ( talk) 00:51, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Well done, anything you want me to do to move this towards FAC? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:13, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Do we really need to capitalize the name? It's like writing "White Tiger" instead of " White tiger". -unsigned
No it's not. A white Tiger is simply a white Tiger, as opposed to an orange/colour-typical Tiger. This is a matter of a totally different species of bird. Albino tigers are not a different species anymore than you and me if we have different hair genes/color. 71.102.17.212 ( talk) 05:34, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
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It was announced on the news tonight that the great tit in Britain has a bill 0.33 millimetres longer than the great tit in the Netherlands. This was attributed to the way the British feed these birds. This interesting information could go in the article if anybody is an expert on this finding. Vorbee ( talk) 17:30, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
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Per the second paragraph,
“ | The great tit was formerly treated as ranging from Britain to Japan and south to the islands of Indonesia, with 36 described subspecies ascribed to four main species groups. The major group had.... | ” |
What does the major group mean? Was there a "major group" under Parus major (aka The great tit, if this was the case, then what is the scientific classification of "the group")? Or the article is talking about the major group under the genus Parus (which at least does not equal to the great tit now, and thus make these sentences bit confusing)?-- 淺藍雪 ❉ 00:38, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
The page is locked, so I can’t change it, but in the intro Central Asia is linked but the second word is missing in the text. Insofarasto ( talk) 12:45, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
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This article's section describes the Great Tit hunting bats in winter.
Recently it has been shown that they may hunt house sparrow, also in winter. [1] Hoping one of the more experienced editors will be able to write this fascinating behavior into the article.
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Also, finnish wikipedia tells about this. The source [12] used is Ilta-Sanomat evening/tabloid newspaper, which tells about "murdering" about 20 common redpolls (Acanthis flammea). I don't know if that qualifies as a reliable source, but there are pictures (some quite graphic) of the attacker and the attacked. 109.240.75.96 ( talk) 14:54, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
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You can find a picture of a great tit at the german wikipedia: de:Bild:Parus_major.jpg -- de:Hokanomono
Can somebody explain why "Great Tit" is capitalized like a proper noun? Craw 11:37, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
Read this page without laughing. I dare you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.240.96.82 ( talk) 18:34, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
The anon ip who redirected Big tits to this article deserves a barnstar. lol! -- OlEnglish ( Talk) 22:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
btw, see Wikipedia:Featured redirects for a laugh. ;) -- œ ™ 00:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
There is some text in here which seem rather irrelevant: "However, human habitat also has an effect on the Great Tit. The song of the Great Tit has been observed to change in noise polluted urban environments. In areas with low frequency background noise pollution, the song has a higher frequency than in quieter areas." (this refers to a paper entitled "Birds sing at a higher pitch in urban noise") Birdsong is used to advertise territory & presence to potential competitors & mates, and birds naturally vary their songs so they may be heard better in their surroundings whether those are dense forest or open fields, so this seems to be heavily anthropomorphizing ("birds sing when they're happy" etc.). If this can't be improved it would be better deleted. Innotata 16:45, 29 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Innotata ( talk • contribs)
Regarding the splitting out of the taxanomic groups, it is argued in this paper that the Turkestan Tit should be lumped with this species even as the the Japanese and Cinereus Tits should be split out (contra HBW 2007 but as done by IOC). Should we take the plunge and lump? Sabine's Sunbird talk 05:28, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
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The dimensions and weights I have for this species are pretty vague. Given that the species has been split and insular and tropical forms (which tend to be at the extremes) have been removed, does anyone have some sources on the weights and sizes of remaining subspecies? Sabine's Sunbird talk 06:29, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
The following sentence is too heavily scientific for the lead section: "In the past this species was considered a ring species with several subspecies covering a wide distribution, but these have now been separated as the Cinereous Tit of southern Asia, and the Japanese Tit of East Asia." Can it be moved and/or re-written so that a layperson would understand it? I tried reading the article on ring species, and it's pretty dense. I am not convinced this concept holds any interest for the layperson. Please consider, what is the salient point, and is it really such a basic truth about the bird that it needs to be in the lead section? Anyway, it sounds like the notion of the Great Tit as a ring species is out-dated, so if that is the case, please explain (in the article) why it is being mentioned at all.-- Brambleshire ( talk) 00:51, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Well done, anything you want me to do to move this towards FAC? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:13, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Do we really need to capitalize the name? It's like writing "White Tiger" instead of " White tiger". -unsigned
No it's not. A white Tiger is simply a white Tiger, as opposed to an orange/colour-typical Tiger. This is a matter of a totally different species of bird. Albino tigers are not a different species anymore than you and me if we have different hair genes/color. 71.102.17.212 ( talk) 05:34, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
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It was announced on the news tonight that the great tit in Britain has a bill 0.33 millimetres longer than the great tit in the Netherlands. This was attributed to the way the British feed these birds. This interesting information could go in the article if anybody is an expert on this finding. Vorbee ( talk) 17:30, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
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Per the second paragraph,
“ | The great tit was formerly treated as ranging from Britain to Japan and south to the islands of Indonesia, with 36 described subspecies ascribed to four main species groups. The major group had.... | ” |
What does the major group mean? Was there a "major group" under Parus major (aka The great tit, if this was the case, then what is the scientific classification of "the group")? Or the article is talking about the major group under the genus Parus (which at least does not equal to the great tit now, and thus make these sentences bit confusing)?-- 淺藍雪 ❉ 00:38, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
The page is locked, so I can’t change it, but in the intro Central Asia is linked but the second word is missing in the text. Insofarasto ( talk) 12:45, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
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This article's section describes the Great Tit hunting bats in winter.
Recently it has been shown that they may hunt house sparrow, also in winter. [1] Hoping one of the more experienced editors will be able to write this fascinating behavior into the article.
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Also, finnish wikipedia tells about this. The source [12] used is Ilta-Sanomat evening/tabloid newspaper, which tells about "murdering" about 20 common redpolls (Acanthis flammea). I don't know if that qualifies as a reliable source, but there are pictures (some quite graphic) of the attacker and the attacked. 109.240.75.96 ( talk) 14:54, 17 May 2022 (UTC)