crested tit

British

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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crested tit

Margaret Walker captured this image of a crested tit.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2013

Seven; but the crested tit is very uncommon, and the bearded tit does not occur in Shropshire.

From Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by Houghton, W. (William)

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

From Birds and Man by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

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