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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2025-04-24 06:59 am

parid

parid (PAH-rid) - n., any of numerous small passerine birds of the family Paridae, the tits and chickadees.


No relationship to marid, sorry. The difference between a tit and a chickadee is that if it lives the Old World, it's a tit, and if it lives in the New World, it's a chickadee (unless it's a titmouse). Name is, via the family name, from Latin parus, tit (and by extension chickadee).

Great tit (left) and Eurasian blue tit (right) are both parids
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---L.

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