beardy

His followers were known in Australia as ‘beardies.’

The fascinating "beardie" is not a tit at all, but belongs to an Asian family, the parrotbills.

But she always kept her distance whenever one of my beardies was out of its cage, as if Moose merely acted like a good-natured lap lizard to throw her off […] .

Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.

Loaches (or beardies) often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever beardies got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.