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🦉 The great tit (Parus major)

• Parus (lat.) Tit
• major (lat.) large

If corvids, gulls, and parrots rank first among birds in terms of intelligence, then great tits rank second. Their intelligence allows them to survive in the wild (and not only) nature, ensuring excellent survival and, therefore, abundance. These photos show a young bird, as you can see it does not yet have "adult" plumage and a beak with the yellow color of its childhood.

But already in adolescence, they are quite curious, exploring the world around them and learning from their parents. For example, there's a curious fact: male children carefully study their father's singing voice so that they can try to sing it the same way the following year, while female children try to memorize their father's song by volume, pitch, and so on, so that the following year they can choose a male with a similar voice, no louder or worse.