Talk:Tit (bird)

Bottle tit?
What exactly is a bottle tit? See page 27 here. It's probably an old name for a long-tailed tit, but I'm not sure. Anyone know anything? Can a redirect be introduced? Malick78 (talk) 20:57, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It is the Long-tailed Tit, named for the shape of its nest, jimfbleak (talk) 07:37, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism
Uh, it says they're penisivores. And that they eat HUGE-nuts. I'm pretty sure this is wrong.
 * Not even that clever. People anymore sadden me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VarikValefor (talk • contribs) 05:46, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Chicadee
i think the article name should be moved to chickadee —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jumpman Jordan (talk • contribs) 20:05, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * This is an American term, I think that most of us would be best sticking with the universal English term.

Chickadee and titmouse
I propose that chickadee and titmouse be merged with Poecile and Baeolophus, respectively. There has been a good deal of confusion over these matters and an awful lot of old world tits are called titmice on their pages. (I'm going to try to clean this up.) Stop using these North American terms willy-nilly, please! Innotata 15:01, 27 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Innotata (talk • contribs) Here's something else: Can somebody find a citation for the monophyly of chickadees (id est North American representatives of Poecile excepting the siberian tit) as posited in the article? I find this dubious. Innotata 15:15, 27 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Innotata (talk • contribs)
 * Can someone put the appropriate merger tags onto Poecile and Baeolophus? I can't find the right ones to use. And can you put merger tags on redirect pages? Innotata 17:33, 30 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Innotata (talk • contribs)
 * I'm going to put this onto Baeolophus and Poecile. I'll also reword the mention of american tit radiations. Innotata 16:12, 31 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Innotata (talk • contribs)

I don't know why chickadee redirects here, as a chickadee and a titmouse are 2 very different birds. Chickadees are very tame and friendly, tits are scared of people —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.224.167.166 (talk) 16:32, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Old page history
Some old page history that used to be at the title "Tit (bird)" can now be found at Talk:Tit (bird)/Old history. Graham 87 03:55, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

North America
At various points in the article there are statements that some bird or genus is 'unique to North America' or something similar, but it isn't clear what is being referred to. At one point there is an implication that all titmice fall into this category, which is clearly wrong. Could a suitable expert editor go through the article and clean this up? --Ef80 (talk) 09:43, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Russian name commonality?
The Russian word for 'bird' is 'ptitsa'. Is there any relation between 'tit' (small) and the Russian word for bird?

Etymology?
Where does the term Tit come from? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.93.176.178 (talk) 02:33, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Feeding Behavior
As these birds change their feeding habit based on time of year and local food abundance I propose the following change to the first sentence in "Behaviour:Diet and Feeding" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_(bird)#Diet_and_feeding). Insectivores only eat insects. Omnivores consume both plant and animal material as food.

The tits are generalist omnivores that consume a wide range of small insects and other invertebrates, particularly small defoliating caterpillars as well as consuming seeds and nuts, particularly in the winter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.75.142.142 (talk) 16:24, 23 May 2022 (UTC)