Blue Tit songs. The following are clearly songs, but as with other titmice, many vocalizations are difficult to assign to call or song.
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(Mar, Herts)
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(Mar, Herts)
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(Mar, Herts)
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Singing atdawn is persistent. At the end of this recording I believe mating occurred, with one of the birds twittering at high frequency (May, Herts).
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twitter/mating call
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twitter, time scale reduced
Great Tit.
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Coal Tit songs are similar in rhythm to the Great Tit, but have a different tone.
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Coal Tit and Great Tit together.
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Coal Tit "courtship/copulation" song. This extended song was made at the time of intimate association with a female. Initially the birds chased around a bush with twittering, and then the male fluttered his wings rapidly and at one point mounted the female, uttering this remarkable continuous vocalization (Apr, Herts).
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time scale reduced
Marsh and Willow Tits are very similar in appearance but have different vocalizations.
Marsh Tit.
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Willow Tit (May, Herts).
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One of the two song types of the Wood Warbler is similar to the Willow Tit (June, Suffolk).
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