A small Eurasian and North African tit (songbird) with a grey back, black cap and throat, and white cheeks.
煤山雀
Parus ater, family Paridae
Example sentencesExamples
- The eggs and more commonly the young of blue tits, great tits, coal tits and nuthatches have all become victims.
- As we arrived, a bird woman pulled in and distributed delicacies, and the well-trained chaffinches and blue, great and coal tits homed in; all the birds in the wood perhaps, because we did not see any more.
- Birds as diverse as buzzards and coal tits are regularly seen.
- The coal tit makes a nifty dash in and out while the dunnock forages underneath with some starlings and a pair of blackbirds.
- Now I'm quite chuffed about the two coal tits that we've managed to tempt into our garden.