Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, long-tailed bird (Psaltriparus minimus) of western North America, having predominantly gray plumage.
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- noun A North American
long-tailed tit , of the genusPsaltriparus , that has mostly grey plumage
Etymologies
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Examples
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The most abundant resident birds are the bushtit, pinyon jay, plain titmouse, black-chinned hummingbird, Woodhouse's jay, red-tailed hawk, golden eagle, red-shafted flicker, and rock wren.
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The most common birds seen in the dry summer season are wrentit, common bushtit, and rufous-sided towhee.
California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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So I just spellchecked something I'm working on, and spellcheck flagged the word "bullshit" and wanted to replace it with the word "bushtit."
"Titmen" are Pigs Karyn 2006
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So I just spellchecked something I'm working on, and spellcheck flagged the word "bullshit" and wanted to replace it with the word "bushtit."
Archive 2006-11-01 Karyn 2006
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Several times I've been down there I go "down" the main part of my flower garden and I've heard that unmistakeable squeak like a bushtit on steroids and it's come and posed and flashed its colours at me and of course I haven't had my camera with me.
Photographing birds intertext 2005
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Not to mention the bird that's got it all, the bushtit … pete Says:
Think Progress 2009
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Our capital city is also full of bushtit, if you change spelling a bit.
Toronto Sun 2009
pomegranate commented on the word bushtit
These little birds come in droves to the suet feeders in my backyard. Visitors often ask me what they are and turn bright red when I tell them. I've resorted to calling them "bushtips" in certain company. This works well, because they often use my rhododendron bushes as staging areas for rapid-strike missions on the suet.
December 7, 2007