OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 30367

twite

/twaɪt/
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pardillo piquigualdo
A small passerine bird, Linaria flavirostris (syn. Carduelis flavirostris), that breeds in northern Europe and across central Asia.
The Twite has the distinction of being the only European bird derived from the Tibetan fauna type.
Twites also breed in southwest and central Asia – at up to 3,500 m asl in Tibet – and it is supposed that the European relict populations became isolated during the retreat of the…
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