Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fire-crested wren of Europe, Regulus ignicapillus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small European kinglet (
Regulus ignicapillus ), having a bright red crest; -- called alsofire-crested wren .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A very small
passerine bird , Regulus ignicapillus, that breeds inEurasia .
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Examples
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Neither love, this, nor abduction; deathly beauty -- harsh seduction -- gem-hard, frozen firecrest adorns the queen of winter's breast and from some cigarette in bed her heat will dance, and wail, and spread
Courted: a dirge (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010
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Neither love, this, nor abduction; deathly beauty -- harsh seduction -- gem-hard, frozen firecrest adorns the queen of winter's breast and from some cigarette in bed her heat will dance, and wail, and spread
Courted: a dirge (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010
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In addition to supporting Columba trocaz, several forest areas are also very important for a number of Madeiran subspecies, notably the birds of prey and passerines living within the forest canopy such Madeira chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs maderensis) and Madeira firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus maderensis).
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If you're lucky you'll see a firecrest, a rare little bird.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Maria Fitzpatrick 2011
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He talks animatedly about recently seeing the rare firecrest near his home in London's Stoke Newington.
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