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Coal Tit


Coal Tit
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Copyright: Fatih Sam (fthsm) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 139 W: 50 N: 384] (2310)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-08-07
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon 30D, Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/200 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Sahalin Birds [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2006-10-29 3:57
Viewed: 781
Points: 18
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Coal Tit (Parus ater) tr: Çam Baştankarası

The Coal Tit is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout Europe, Asia and northern Africa. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate.

The Coal Tit is 10–11.5 cm in length, and has a distinctive large white nape spot on its black head. The head, throat and neck of the adult are glossy blue-black, setting off the white on the nape and sides of the face; the white tips of the coverts show as a double wingbar. The underparts are white shading through buff to rufous on the flanks. The bill is black, the legs lead-coloured and irides dark brown.

The young bird is duller than the adult, the black head having no sheen, and the white of the nape and cheeks is tinged with yellow.

There are a number of subspecies. The British race P. a. britannicus has an olive brown back, distinguishing it from the nominate continental race P. a. ater in which the back is bluish grey. The North African race P. a. ledouci has yellow underparts and cheeks, and the Cypriot P. a. cypriotes has a buff tinge to its upperparts, and deep buff underparts.

Coal Tits will form small flocks in winter with other tits. This species resembles other tits in acrobatic skill and restless activity, though it more frequently pitches on a trunk, and in little hops imitates the Treecreeper. Its food is similar to that of the others; it is keen on beechmast, picks out the seeds from larch and fir cones, and joins Redpolls and Siskins in birches and alders. During these food hunts it keeps up an incessant short flight or flock call; the song, if song it can be called, is a strident if-he, if-he, if-he, heard most frequently from January to June, but also in autumn. One variant of this song or call ends with a sharp ichi.

A favourite nesting site is a hole in a rotting tree-stump, often low down, and the nest is deep within the hole; holes in the ground, burrows of mice or rabbits, chinks between the stones in walls, old nests of magpies or other large birds, and squirrel dreys are also occupied. The materials, moss, hair and grass, are closely felted together, and rabbit fur or feathers added for lining; seven to eleven red spotted white eggs of the usual tit type are laid, as a rule, in May, but second broods are rare.


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Fatih Bey merhaba,

Bence netlik ve detaylar mükemmel.Gönül isterdi ki o dal o kadar kalın olmasın ama bu tarz kuşları istediğimiz koşullarda fotoğraflayabilmek her zaman mümkün olamıyor.Arkaplan da fotonun güzelliğini desteklemiş.

Tebrikler.

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  • jossim Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1676 W: 5 N: 2144] (11878)
  • [2006-10-29 6:05]

Bonjour Fatih!

Félicitations pour cette belle photo.La pose de l'oiseau est parfaite,la composition est bonne,par contre il manque un peu de lumière à mon avis.

Merci pour l'envoie.
josep

well composed shot, the pov is good, the blurred black/green bg looks good for the shot, the dof is nice.
tfs
regards
pankaj

Hi Fatih,
Very nice capture.
Thedetails are so clear.I like the POV,DOF and sharpness.
Well done.
TFS

Bel oiseau,bonne photo.Thomas

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  • Juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2036 W: 6 N: 2017] (13253)
  • [2006-10-29 14:12]

Simpática y agradable imagen, compo genial...y Bg. agradable... me gusta, saludos

Hi Fatih,
What a nice little one, he is so cute :) You caught excellent details; it is so sharp! The pose of the bird is very nice and I like this POV, DOF, colors and composition. This is a very nice post. TFS,
Claudine

Hi Fatih

Well done on a great shot. Lovely details you show here. Good POV, nice catchlight in the eye. TFS.

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  • osse Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1029 W: 0 N: 90] (7742)
  • [2006-10-30 16:28]

Selam Fatih
Nice birs dhot. Great BG, colours, details and POV.
Well done Fatih

osse

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