[Oldeconomybuyer]

(Disclaimer: there are many alternatives to my Goebbels pic for this post)

[Mercat]

Great tits? This should be an interesting thread.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

"pied flycatchers traveling from Africa to reach breeding grounds in the Netherlands are arriving to find that resident great tits have already claimed nesting sites "

They apparently come in various sizes...

And it appears they do not travel...

[aMorePerfectUnion]

"pied flycatchers traveling from Africa to reach breeding grounds in the Netherlands are arriving to find that resident great tits have already claimed nesting sites "

WINNING BIGLY!

[teeman8r]

in before the objectionable photos of great tits

[Blood of Tyrants]

From the way global warming alarmists talk, you would think that the earth had NEVER been warmer.

[stillfree?]

Great tits, an obvious benefit of warm weather!

[outofsalt]

"If you look around for statistics about bird deaths from wind turbines get you wildly different numbers. Some say just 10,000 birds a year meet their end at the hands (blades) of the wind industry. Others ramp that number up to 600,000. Now, a new study tried to actually use science to estimate.

Of course, they didn't go to each turbine and count how many little feathered bodies they found at the base. Instead, they combed the literature for all the studies they could find on bird deaths, and tried to combine them into an estimate. This meant searching for fun things like “'bird AND wind turbine' with 'collision,' 'mortality,'fatality,' 'carcass,' and 'post-construction.'" And then—even more cheerful—searching all those terms again, but "with 'bird' replaced by 'avian' and 'wildlife'; and 'turbine' replaced by 'farm,' 'facility' and 'energy.'"

In the end, using 58 mortality estimates that met their criteria, they came up with an estimate. According to the current literature somewhere between 140,000 and 328,000 birds die each year from collisions with wind turbines." Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-wind-turbines-really-kill-180948154/#ADPcVbIltT4JFHbg.99

[tet68]

I got pied and saw great tits but they weren’t in the
nest the next morning.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[antidemoncrat]

As far as I’m concerned, great tits can land anywhere they want, especially on me.

[RedMonqey]

"

My money’s on "Great tits"

(Snicker, Snicker!)

[Wuli]

Yes, there are ALWAYS winners and losers, but - unlike the alarmists want you think, LIFE writ large goes on and adapts to the changes. Humans will too.

[jazusamo]

Hey Fly, can you verify any of this info on the great tits? :^)

[I want the USA back]

So, great tits are an endangered species?

[Eagles6]

"They also eavesdropped on resident great tits to gain information the long-distance migrants otherwise lack about local conditions."

Wait...What?

[P.O.E.]