crow-tit

crow-tit

English

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

Alternative forms

• crow tit

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.

Synonyms

• parrotbill

References

• crow-tit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sylvioidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Sylvioidea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons