The Lesser Spotted Tit:
Description and proliferation.
A common bird, with dull feathers and limited ornithological interest.
Small to medium in size with nonfunctional wing foliage. Its proliferation since 2000 has been exponential, It is now found throughout both Europe and North America.
Similar to turkey's in certain aspects, they rarely make it through Christmas, and they are never witnessed in true flight, this bird skulks in the undergrowth whilst feeding on insects, ground based grommets and lice.
Vocal habits and other behavioural traits
Like the 'go away' bird it also regular squawks out in warning. It does this at any sign of movement and even entirely at random. High Pitched and Shrill it appears to have only one primary call sound and rarely seems to garner much positive response if that is the purpose.
While the North American Wild Turkey occasionally omits
'Gobble- Gobble' type sounds the Lesser Spotted Tit's expletives resonate as
'Bubble-Bubble' 'Bubble-Bubble' this response is indiscriminate to the nature of the 'disturbance'. This explecitive is repeated in an incessant and occasionally frantic fashion often without reason or provocation.
However like the Burchells Cuckoo, it seeks to, on the sly place its own eggs (Tech Stocks on its website) in the family nest for you to feed, It does this unbeknown to the lesser and harder working birds, so as to outsource the need to keep and nurture its own nest egg.
The bird appears to have highly limited vision. In fact certain controversial ornithological theorist's have suggested that its repeated cries, are more to create sound waves and echo for them to discern where in fact they are, relative to potential obstacles. In a form of low tech version of a bats sensory system.
Others feel that its repeated calls are more to re-establish its confidence so as to assert itself when in the close proximity to superior birds of prey. A final an unproven view is that it has an unexplained ulterior motive behind its rather one-dimentional call type.
As stated already The Lessor Spotted Tit makes its primary domain on the ground in low lying shrubs and bushes. This is the level of its primary food source, which also consists of: Centipedes, worms and minor rodents.
Despite its inability to fly, it appears to have extensive migratory patterns and is known to travel far and wide on foot in search of positive responses to its primary cry.
It must be stated however at this point, that no concrete proof exists that it is a carrier of 'Bird Flu', although experts generally encourage caution when facing any form of an approach.
.....Are the bell, time for my roasted turkey and duck sandwich. Then time to soar with the Eagles, my feathered friends.
Lets maintain a 'Lesser Spotted Tit bird' alert. Keep 'em peeled Hawk eye! :cheesy:
