It is well known that among the birds that stay for the winter, there are also tits. However, the statement that all tits winter in our area is not entirely accurate.

Tits

Some of them fly to the south of the country in autumn and return only in spring. After all, the family of tits includes many birds with different customs, tastes and habits. Some birds from this family are able to find food in winter with us, while others go for it where it is warmer.

Tits

Tits, like many other birds that destroy pests, bring great benefits to humans. That is why the biologist V. Tretyakov, in his article in the journal Science and Life, suggests building houses not only for starlings, but also for these birds: “Most often people make nesting houses for starlings – birdhouses (they are also willingly inhabited by sparrows). Undoubtedly, the starling deserves to build a house for him. One starling brood in 5 days can eat about a thousand May beetles and their larvae, not counting the huge number of caterpillars and slugs. The observations of ornithologists confirm that the starling most often hunts not in the garden near the house, but in the nearest forest or field, while the tit works only in the area where its nest is located. So – choose. Maybe, first of all, to help small birds?

It is necessary to attract as many small birds as possible to gardens, parks, squares and shelterbelts, and leave villages and the outskirts of forest parks for starlings. It is most correct if for every five houses for small birds hang out one birdhouse.

Tits

It is interesting that the very first Law on the Protection of Animals was dedicated to tits (along with other birds) (environmental laws are not at all the brainchild of our time, as they sometimes think. Wise people have been at all times, but they have not always listened to them). Promulgated at all times by the Archbishop of Trier Theodoric the Second, who ruled in 1212-1242, the "Forest Charter" regarding tits read: "Whoever catches a bird, which is called everywhere a tit, let him be anathematized." And in the charter of Louis of Bavaria from 1328 it was said: “A heavy fine awaits the one who catches a titmouse, a diligent insect catcher. The one who breaks the law must pay the royal tribute of 60 shillings, as well as a beautiful red hen and 12 chickens as compensation for the caught tit."