Twite Twite The twite ("Linaria flavirostris") is a small brown passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is similar in size and shape to a linnet, at long. It lacks the red head patch and breast shown by the linnet and the redpolls. It is brown streaked with black above, and a pink rump. The underparts are buff to whitish, streaked with brown. The conical bill is yellow in winter and grey in summer. The call is a distinctive "twit", from which its name derives, and the song contains fast trills and twitters. Twites can form large flocks outside the
A Christmas Kind of Town A Christmas Kind of Town A Christmas Kind of Town is a Christmas album released by the band Marah in 2005. Tim Sendra of Allmusic called "A Christmas Kind of Town" an "utterly heartwarming and joyous album". Jim Musser of the "Iowa City Press-Citizen" called the album "upbeat, inclusive and downright irresistible". Jay Lustig of "The Star-Ledger" wrote that the song "New York Is a Christmas Kind of Town" is "a thoroughly modern Christmas song, but one with a classic feel". The album was dedicate to "anyone and everyone, regardless of religion or race, who just likes it when December