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twite
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twite \Twite\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The European tree sparrow.
The mountain linnet ( Linota flavirostris). [Prov. Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. A small passerine bird, (taxlink Carduelis flavirostris species noshow=1), that breeds in northern Europe and across central Asia.
Wikipedia
The twite (Linaria flavirostris) is a small brown passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.
It is similar in size and shape to a linnet, at long. It lacks the red head patch and breast shown by the linnet and the redpolls. It is brown streaked with black above, and a pink rump. The underparts are buff to whitish, streaked with brown. The conical bill is yellow in winter and grey in summer. The call is a distinctive twit, from which its name derives, and the song contains fast trills and twitters. Twites can form large flocks outside the breeding season, sometimes mixed with other finches on coasts and salt marshes. They feed mainly on seeds.
The twite breeds in northern Europe and across central Asia. Treeless moorland is favoured for breeding. It builds its nest in a bush, laying 5–6 light blue eggs. It is partially resident, but many birds migrate further south, or move to the coasts. It has declined sharply in parts of its range, notably Ireland.
In the UK, the Twite is subject to several research projects in the Pennines, the Scottish Highlands and the North wales and Lancashire coast lines. Records show that the birds to the east of the Pennine hills move to the southeast coast in winter and those to the west winter between Lancashire and the Hebrides. The Welsh population winters almost exclusively in Flintshire.
In 1758 Carl Linnaeus included the species in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Fringilla flavirostris. The Latin name flavirostris means yellow-billed. The twite and the closely related linnets were at one time placed in the genus Carduelis but were moved to a separate genus Linaria based on a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences.
There are 10 recognised subspecies:
- L. f. bensonorum ( Meinertzhagen, R, 1934) - Outer Hebrides (western Scotland) (sometimes included in pipilans)
- L. f. pipilans ( Latham, 1787) - northern Ireland and northern Britain
- L. f. flavirostris ( Linnaeus, 1758) - northern Scandinavia and northwestern Russia
- L. f. brevirostris ( Bonaparte, 1855) - Turkey, the Caucasus and northern Iran
- L. f. kirghizorum ( Sushkin, 1925) - northern and central Kazakhstan
- L. f. korejevi ( Zarudny & Harms, 1914) - northeastern Kazakhstan to northwestern China
- L. f. altaica ( Sushkin, 1925) - southwestern Siberia, northern and western Mongolia
- L. f. montanella ( Hume, 1873) - Kyrgyzstan to western China
- L. f. pamirensis (Zarudny & Harms, 1914) - Tajikistan, northern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan (sometimes included in montanella)
- L. f. miniakensis ( Jacobi, A, 1923) - eastern Tibet and western China
- L. f. rufostrigata (Walton, 1905) - western and southern Tibet, northern India and northern Nepal
Usage examples of "twite".
Dido Twite then became the main character, but the last three books have centered on Is.
Its success encouraged me to write a sequel, and I intended Dido Twite to die at the end.
Field has mysteriously vanished from his lodgings, which occupy the top floor of the home of the disagreeable Twite family.
There, Simon meets and befriends the impertinent, neglected Dido Twite, who winds up aiding him in his quest to find his missing friend.
This same Twitten, for purposes unknown, placed the iron post at a crossroads in the Forest of Tantrevalles, despite legends which state otherwise.
These were discovered and explored by Twitten the Arch-mage, and he compiled an almanac, which is of great value.
A certain indomitable sorcerer by the name of Ticely Twitten made a study of these worlds and his almanac measures what he calls 'pulses' and 'quavers'.
A certain number have been placed here for one reason or another by magicians like Twitten, and they too must bide on Tanjecterly.
A certain indomitable sorcerer by the name of Ticely Twitten made a study of these worlds and his almanac measures what he calls ‘pulses’ and ‘quavers’.
Murgen proved the strongest and defeated Twitten, whose father was a halfling, his mother a bald priestess at Kai Kang, under the Atlas Mountains.
Quickly he turned off down The Twitten, an alleyway that led to Snake Slipway.