long-tailed tit

noun

1. a small European songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with a black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail: family Paridae (tits)

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Another winner is the long-tailed tit.

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The wildlife survey, which began in 1979, has charted how birds such as the song thrush and greenfinch have been overtaken by the woodpigeon and long-tailed tit.

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"This new knowledge certainly increases my respect for the construction skills of birds like the long-tailed tit, which use many thousands of pieces of material to make their domed nest of moss, lichen, spider-webs and feathers."

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This long-tailed tit is collecting feathers for a nest.

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The long-tailed tit is named for its distinctive rear feathers that are longer than its body.

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