Creature Feature

Attack of the Zombie Tits

Small birds are hiding a morbid secret

Alex Cooper
The Critter Feed
Published in
4 min readJun 6, 2021

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great tit saying braaains
Image from Canva; edited by author

Great tits, blood and guts.

No, those aren’t the ingredients for a low-budget zombie movie — I’m talking about the morbid habits of a small bird with a silly name.

The jury is out whether the great tit is a birb, a borb, or even a floof, but I’m sure…

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Alex Cooper
The Critter Feed

Sporadic satirist and amateur wildlife photographer. Buy my pics here: https://tinyurl.com/yfrf5ty9