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Cockatiel vs Hummingbird - What's the difference?

cockatiel | hummingbird |

As nouns the difference between cockatiel and hummingbird

is that cockatiel is nymphicus hollandicus , a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest while hummingbird is any of various small american birds in the family trochilidae that have the ability to hover.

cockatiel

English

(wikipedia cockatiel) (Nymphicus hollandicus)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Nymphicus hollandicus , a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest.
  • Synonyms

    * quarrion, weero

    See also

    * Cacatuidae * Nymphicanae * parrot

    hummingbird

    Alternative forms

    * humming bird, humming-bird

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
  • * 1857 Thoreau, Henry David , journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau'', Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology ''Thoreau's bird-lore , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
  • Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]

    See also

    * snowcap