The Great Tit is regarded as a resident and makes no long migrations.
Stays put: most individuals rarely move more than a few tens of kilometres from the breeding territory.
Partial migration: in some years northern populations may move shorter distances southward during hard cold spells and poor seed availability.
Juvenile dispersal: young Great Tits disperse from their birth territory in autumn to find territories of their own.
Unlike true migrants such as the Swift, the Great Tit has no fixed migration routes or wintering areas, and the widespread supplementary feeding at bird tables has made it even easier for the species to winter where it is.