Blue Tit With Sound Cuddly Toy

Measures 13cmPlush fake furStuffed toySuitable for ages 3 years and upYou will love our range of bird toys at wildtoys.co.uk. We think this Blue Tit with its attractive blue, yellow and green colouring looks just like the real thing. This makes a great toy for kids, simply squeeze the soft body and hear a real-life Blue Tit call. Plays up to an amazing 2000 times! Physical CharacteristicsThe azure blue crown and dark blue line passing through the eye and encircling the white cheeks to the chin give the Blue Tit a very distinctive appearance. The forehead and a bar on the wing are white. The nape, wings and tail are blue; the back is yellowish green; the under parts mostly sulphur-yellow with a dark line down the abdomen. The bill is black, the legs bluish grey and the
irides dark brown. Young Blue Tits are noticeably more yellow. HabitatA common woodland and garden bird, also seen along hedgerows and in most places with trees and bushes. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and Western Asia in deciduous or mixed woodlands. It is a resident bird and does not migrate. BehaviourBlue and Great Tits form mixed winter flocks and the former are perhaps the better gymnasts in the slender twigs. A Blue Tit will often ascend a trunk in short jerky hops, imitating a Treecreeper. As a rule the bird roosts in ivy or evergreens, but in hard weather will shelter in a hole. Blue tits are very agile and can hang from almost anywhere. The Blue Tit has an average life expectancy of 1.5 years.
BreedingThe Blue Tit will nest in any suitable hole in a tree, wall, or stump, or an artificial nest box, often competing with House Sparrows or Great Tits for the site. Few birds more readily accept the shelter of a nesting box; the same hole is returned to year after year, and when one pair dies another takes possession. The bird is a close nest sitter, hissing and biting at an intruding finger. In the South West of England such behaviour has earned the Blue Tit the colloquial nick-name "Little Billy Biter". When protecting its eggs it raises its crest, but this is a sign of excitement rather than anger, for it is also elevated during nuptial display. The nesting material is usually moss, wool, hair and feathers, and the eggs are laid in April or May. The
number in the clutch is often very large, but seven or eight are normal and bigger clutches are usually laid by two or even more hens. DietThe Blue Tit is a valuable destroyer and eater of insect pests, though it has not an entirely clean sheet as a beneficial species. It is fond of young buds of various trees and may pull them to bits in the hope of finding insects. Strange and Interesting FactsAn interesting example of culturally transmitted learning in birds was the phenomenon dating from the 1960s, of Blue Tits teaching one another how to open traditional British milk bottles with foil tops to get at the cream underneath. This behaviour has declined recently because of the trend toward buying lower fat milk, and the replacement of doorstep delivery by
supermarket purchases of milk.