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Finch vs Robin - What's the difference?

finch | robin |

As proper nouns the difference between finch and robin

is that finch is while robin is .

As a noun robin is

(soccer) someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the , as a fan, player, coach, etc.

finch

English

(wikipedia finch)

Noun

(es)
  • Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
  • Derived terms

    * bullfinch * chaffinch * * * goldfinch * * greenfinch * hawfinch * * * * rosefinch * * *

    See also

    * brambling * canary * crossbill * redpoll * serin * siskin

    Verb

    (es)
  • To hunt for finches, to go finching.
  • robin

    English

    (wikipedia robin)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly ), typically with a red breast.
  • # A European robin; ''Erithacus rubecula.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
  • , passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
  • # An American robin; Turdus migratorius .
  • Usage notes

    The American robin is quite different from the European one: English settlers in America so named a red-breasted bird much larger than the European robin.

    Synonyms

    * (all senses) redbreast, robin redbreast * (the European robin)

    Derived terms

    * robin redbreast * round-robin