What's the difference between blackcap and titmouse?

Blackcap


Definition:

  • (n.) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.
  • (n.) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.
  • (n.) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
  • (n.) The black raspberry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the estate, from mid-spring to late summer, look out for cuckoos, blackcaps, swallows, swifts and chiffchaffs.
  • (2) Those that winter north of the Sahara, such as blackcaps and chiffchaffs, have seen substantial increases since the mid-1980s.
  • (3) One Sunday morning we even had a visit from a smart male blackcap – a species that now spends the winter in the warmer setting of nearby Bristol, but usually shuns our chilly rural garden.
  • (4) This is our first wintering blackcap for almost a decade, and yet another sign that this winter is so much milder than usual.

Titmouse


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit, and tomtit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The subfraction compositions of the histone F1 of several tissues from the chicken, pigeon, and titmouse have been compared.

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