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Great tit
Parus major · Family Paridae
Parus major
Family Paridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Paridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 14,041,235
- Countries and territories with records
- 101
About this species
This species has 14,041,235 occurrence records from 101 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (14.9%), Finland (14%), France (12.8%), the Netherlands (9.9%) and the United Kingdom (7.9%); together they account for 59.5% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 2% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Parus major combines the genus name Parus with the species epithet major. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Parus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Parus cinereus and Parus monticolus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 61 species of the family Paridae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Poecile atricapillus. Its record count is 10.7 times the family average (1,310,770). The family Paridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.