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Estrildid vs Bluebill - What's the difference?

estrildid | bluebill |

As nouns the difference between estrildid and bluebill

is that estrildid is (zoology) any weaverbird of the family estrildidae while bluebill is the scaup (of genus aythya ).

estrildid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) Any weaverbird of the family Estrildidae.
  • * 1968 , Breviora , Issues 280-309, page 50,
    • Estrildids and ploceids are clearly different in courtship posture, clutch size, egg coloration, pattern in mouth of the young, and mode of begging of the young.
  • * 1996 , Gordon L. Maclean, Ecophysiology of Desert Birds , page 100,
    • Marschall and Prinzinger (1991) subjected five species of estrildids to the following calculation from laboratory measurements under different TA: O2 consumption, CO2 production, RMR, TNZ, conductance and TB.
  • * 2008 , James L. Goodson, Chapter 1: Nonapeptides and the evolutionary patterning of sociality , page 8,
    • The estrildids are all monogamous (forming long-term or life-long pair bonds) and exhibit biparental care.

    Synonyms

    * (any species of Estrildidae)

    See also

    * (Estrildid finch) * (Estrildidae) * (Estrildidae)

    bluebill

    English

    (wikipedia bluebill) (Aythya)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the scaup (of genus Aythya )
  • Spermophaga , estrildid finches found in tropical Africa.

    • Hyponyms

    * (scaup) greater scaup, lesser scaup

    See also

    * Argentine blue-bill