Birds like blue tits and great tits are choosy about houses they visit

An ecologist from the University of Exeter conducted a year-long study into the behavior of more than 450 blue tits and great tits has concluded that the birds were choosy about the houses they visit - the study found that birds moved more frequently between gardens that have trees and shrubs.
The amount of seed put on your bird table to attract the birds is of no consequence - what matters is how the house looks like.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 25 November 2016.

Birds love to visit the gardens of suburban semi-detached homes rather than the terraced homes or council estates. This is because the trees and shrubs give the birds a safe route to hop and fly from garden to garden and from bird feeder to bird feeder.
The research found that birds were less likely to move between homes with paved gardens, or housing estates with manicured lawns but fewer trees or shrubs. In short, birds were unlikely to fly into rows of gardens in terraced streets that had little vegetation and were paved. Moreover, roads between gardens also hindered their movement.
Incidentally, people prefer watching song-birds, such as blackbirds, robins, blue tits and great tits, in their garden but, the wood pigeon, magpies and crows fall in the least popular species.


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