long-tailed titmouse

English

Noun

long-tailed titmouse (plural long-tailed titmice)

1. Aegithalos caudatus (long-tailed tit)
   • 1983, Bernd Heinrich, In a Patch of Fireweed, page 11:

     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.

References

• long-tailed tit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aegithalos caudatus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Aegithalos caudatus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Audio recordings of Aegithalos caudatus on Xeno-canto.