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great tit

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great tit
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a large common Eurasian tit, Parus major, with yellow-and-black underparts and a black-and-white head
Translations
great tit n (Zool) → cinciallegra
great tit n (Zool) → cinciallegra


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In one great tit population that researchers have studied for 50 years, the birds nest in a series of human-made boxes in a forest in the Netherlands.
For example, they identified late-caterpillar areas for some years by seeing where European birds called great tits had raised second clutches of eggs.
The immigration effects emerged in the great tit work only because the researchers had so much data, explains Dany Garant of the University of Oxford in England.
 
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