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Parental Behaviour of Blue Tits

This resource, aimed at Key Stages One and Two, links to the topic areas of animals, habitats, and adaptation. It includes a film showing footage of the behaviour of parental blue tits and a series of activity worksheets. These look at several aspects of blue tits and their behaviour including:

*What happens inside a nestbox
*Comparing blue tits and kestrels
*The type of food blue tits feed to their chicks
*Food chains
*Growth of chicks
*Using classification keys to identify garden birds
*Adaptations of blue tits

There is also data to interpret and answer questions on where blue tits find food, numbers of eggs in blue tit nests and the growth rates of chicks.

This resource has been provided by the Association of Animal Behaviour (ASAB).

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