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European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow crown patch
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goldcrest
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The goldcrest ( Regulus regulus ) is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family. Its colourful golden crest feathers gives rise to its English and scientific names, and possibly to it being called the "king of the birds" in European folklore. Several ...
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n. A very small passerine bird, ''Regulus regulus'', that breeds in Eurasia.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goldcrest \Gold"crest`\ (g[=o]ld"kr[e^]st`), n. (Zo["o]l.) The European golden-crested kinglet ( Regulus cristatus , or Regulus regulus ); -- called also golden-crested wren , and golden wren . The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested ...
WordNet
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n. European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow crown patch [syn: golden-crested kinglet , Regulus regulus ]
Usage examples of goldcrest.
The goldcrest, with a stomach no bigger than a bean, flies across the North Sea!
They had missed the spectacular breeding colonies of the spring when the cliffs were white with nesting guillemots and razorbills and the puffin burrows honeycombed the turf, but there were other visitors now: the migrant goldcrests and fieldfares and buntings -and the seals, hundreds of them, returning to have their pups.