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Many Latin and Greek names of birds are descriptive. For example what people often call the “tit” bird is actually Parus major, which you could roughly translate into “a bit bigger”. And they are the biggest of the tit birds.

And another “tit” actually is called Lophophanes cristatus. Which roughly means “showing the comb (lophophanes) with hood (cristatus)”.

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Cute!

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I never knew that. That’s pretty cool.

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