crow-tit
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Noun
- 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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References
crow-tit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Sylvioidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Sylvioidea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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