bearded tit

noun

variants or less commonly bearded titmouse

: a small long-tailed European titlike bird (Panurus biarmicus) that frequents reedy places, is largely orange-brown, black, and white, and in the male has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face

called also reedling

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