long-tailed titmouse

noun

Aegithalos caudatus (long-tailed tit)

Meanings

nounlong-tailed titmouse (plural long-tailed titmice)

plural long-tailed titmice

  1. Aegithalos caudatus (long-tailed tit)

    In the gnarled willow trees by the brook I saw a tiny long-tailed titmouse disappear into a fork of a tree. The bird had entered a nest covered with lichens, and the nest looked exactly like the lichen-covered tree itself.

    1983, Bernd Heinrich, In a Patch of Fireweed, page 11
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