What is the difference between the Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) and the Great Tit (Parus major)?
The Eurasian Blue Tit and the Great Tit are both in the Paridae family of passerines.
The Eurasian Blue Tit and the Great Tit both have large white cheeks, a yellowish-green back, and blue-grey wings with white wing-bars.
The Eurasian Blue Tit has an azure-blue crown and a dark-blue line passing through its eye and encircling its white cheeks to the chin, whereas the Great Tit has a black crown.
The Eurasian Blue Tit is found throughout Europe and the Middle East, whereas the Great Tit is found throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa. Both are residential, and not migratory.
Location of photographs: Paris, France
Photographer: Martina Nicolls
Martina Nicolls: SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM