Tichodrome (Noun)
Meaning
Crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The wallcreeper's remarkable climbing ability is only rivalled by its tiny rival the tichodrome.
- Nesting tichodromes rely heavily on an old raptor or mammal nesting cavity high on some crumbling precipice.
- No better ornithologist could introduce readers to his feathered discoveries as through bird families - hoopoe to starling to wheatear, upland and wet, wallcreeper and tichodrome.
- There's nothing, nothing that will have you jumping over joy like these cliff swallows and tichodromes, when these creatures show up.
- A lot has been written on its nesting habits, by its resemblance on the wallcreeper to the black tichodrome, that have two to four whitish-blue speckled eggs in some May.