crested tit

noun

a small European songbird, Parus cristatus, that has a greyish-brown plumage with a prominent speckled black-and-white crest: family Paridae (tits)

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Treecreepers give high calls as they hunt for insects on the trunks of the pines, while flocks of tits – among them one of those specialist Highland species, the crested tit – flit through the higher branches.

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Margaret Walker captured this image of a crested tit.

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I looked in vain in these pine-woods for the Crested Tit, which occurs near Gibraltar, and which my brother found numerous in Navarre.

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These in their turn will be followed by the chough, hobby, great black-backed gull, furze wren, crested tit, and others.

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The titmouse tribe are abundant; but we never see the rarer species, the bearded or the crested tit.

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crested dog's-tail crested wheatgrass

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