coal tit

British  

noun

1. a small European songbird, Parus ater, having a black head with a white patch on the nape: family Paridae (tits)

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Example Sentences

One placard provided a bird-guide to different species of tit, with pictures of examples such as blue tit and coal tit, before concluding with David Cameron, labeled a “colossal” tit - a British phrase for massive idiot.

From Reuters

Coal tit numbers fell by 20% and goldcrests by 75%, the charity's annual Big Garden Birdwatch found.

From BBC

Coal tit Parus ater sub-sp. pekinensis.

From Project Gutenberg

Parus teneriff�, a beautiful dark blue form of our blue tit, inhabits North-west Africa and the Canaries; Parus ledouci, closely allied to our coal tit, is found only in Algeria; Parus lugubris, allied to the marsh tit, is confined to South-east Europe and Asia Minor, from Hungary and South Russia to Palestine; and Parus cinctus, another allied form, is confined to the extreme north in Lapland, Finland, and perhaps Northern Russia and Siberia.

From Project Gutenberg