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🦉 The coal tit or cole tit (Periparus ater)

• Peri (Greek) very, hugely
• Parus (lat.) Tit
• ater (lat.) black, dark

This little one is not called "little tit" for nothing - it really is hardly bigger than a sparrow. Unlike its noisy relative, the great tit, this one is much more modest: gray, with a neat black cap and white cheeks, as well as a cute tiny tuft on its head.

You can meet it in coniferous or in small quantities in mixed forests. It is especially easy to do this in the spring during the mating season. Males actively sing while sitting on branches, and they do it so intensely that sometimes they get tired and doze and rest there.