Great Tit

(Parus major)

Category of conservation concern (IUCN, 2020) – Least Concern

Population size: 800 000- 1 300 000 pairs

Distribution pattern

Distributed throughout the country with the exception of the high mountain treeless zone.

Comparative distribution of the species compared to the first breeding birds atlas (Iankov, 2007): Breeding locality until 2007 | Breeding locality until 2007, confirmed after 2015 – | New breeding locality after 2015. – The breeding localities after 2015 are identified on a base of raw data from smartbirds.org.

Habitats

Breeds in a wide variety of habitats, favoured are primary broad – leaved deciduous forests, mixed forests, alluvial and riverine forests and brush, to less extent coniferous forests. A significant part of the population also breeds in strips of trees, shrubs and patches of them, orchards, tree and bush plantations, public parks and large gardens and other parts of settlements, where often builds its nests on buildings and other anthropogenic facilities, and sometimes the pairs occupy cavities in inland cliffs and exposed rocks.

Trends in population changes for the period 2013-2020

Not analysed

Threats

Not analysed