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haha, i am doing the Teacher! Teacher! Teacher! Teacher! whistle when i fill up my feeder in the morning to hopefully tell them what's happening. I feel like they hear me.
Great shots as always Ted!
edit: Just read up about the differences between great tits and chickadees, and i saw a description of a tit song being "if-he". That is what i'm whisteling, i assume it's the same as Teacher?!
Thanks bumps ๐ (it is the Dutch for bumps isn't it?)
Lol I call to my crows when I put fat balls out for them. My wife thinks I'm nuts but they do listen to me!
I've never seen a chickadee I'm afraid, we don't have them in the UK.
Ah, but you have seen them, in a manner of speaking. To quote Wikipedia:
I'm sure I'm wrong, but I imagine some colonist puritan going "We can't keep talking of shameful female things... we will henceforth refer to them as chickadees"
Lol yes I can definitely see them getting hot under the frilly collar!
My understanding is that the Chickadees were moved to the genus Poecile (was a sub-genus) which does contain some birds called tit e.g. Willow Tit but is genetically distinct from the other genera that contain the UK birds we call Tits e.g Cyanistes (Blue Tit) or Parus (Great Tit). However, they are in the same Paridae family which are commonly referred to as the Tit family lol I think that's why using common names becomes an issue when you need to be specific. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_(bird)
I also think the problem is, since the advent of genetic testing, we are finding many species need recategorising. And even though the scientific names change the common names are unlikely to.