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Catbird vs Starling - What's the difference?

catbird | starling |

As a noun catbird

is either of two species of american mockingbird relatives, the grey catbird,.

As a proper noun starling is

from a nickname for a gregarious person.

catbird

English

(wikipedia catbird)

Alternative forms

*cat bird

Noun

(en noun)
  • Either of two species of American mockingbird relatives, the grey catbird, .
  • * 1832 , Sharon Turner, The Sacred History of the World :
    • The catbird ’s note exactly resembles the voice of a kitten, that a stranger to it would instantly conclude that such an animal "had got bewildered in the branches".
  • * 1967 , (William Styron), (The Confessions of Nat Turner) , Vintage 2004, p. 200:
    • I recall a catbird high in the water oak above, swinging like a rag amid the branches, jabbering and screeching [...].
  • Any of four species of Australasian bowerbirds of the genera Ailuroedus and .
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 185:
  • *:The cat bird had a forlorn cry, like a whimpering child or the animal it is named for.
  • A babbler-like bird from eastern Africa, .

    • See also

    * (Ailuroedus)

    starling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
  • # The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris , which has dark, iridescent plumage.
  • A structure of pilings that protects the piers of a bridge.
  • A California fish, the .

    • Derived terms

    * (l)