crow-tit

English
A vinous-throated parrotbill, Sinosuthora webbiana, sometimes known as a crow-tit.

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Noun

crow-tit (plural crow-tits)

  1. Any small titlike bird of the family Paradoxornithidae, noted for their curved, parrotlike bills.
    • 1964, Hans Hvass, Birds of the World in Color, page 28:
      The parrotbills or crow-tits, Paradoxornithidae, are a family of small tit-like birds found in Europe and Asia, most in India and South China.
    • 1983, Home-Coming and Other Korean Short Stories, page 101:
      "Nobody says that. But in my opinion, it's better for poor people to act like what they are. A crow tit shouldn't imitate a crane."
    • 1998, Mia Yun, House of the Winds, page 130:
      We swam in the stream, caught locusts and dragon flies, hunted for eggs laid by Korean crow tits in the rice paddies, […]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:crow-tit.

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