crested tit

British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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.

From The Guardian

Margaret Walker captured this image of a crested tit.

From BBC

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg