Cockatiel vs Hummingbird - What's the difference?
cockatiel | hummingbird |
Nymphicus hollandicus , a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest.
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.)
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)Synonyms
* quarrion, weeroSee also
* Cacatuidae * Nymphicanae * parrothummingbird
English
(wikipedia hummingbird)Alternative forms
* humming bird, humming-birdNoun
(en noun)- Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]