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Hummingbird vs Mockingbird - What's the difference?

hummingbird | mockingbird |

As nouns the difference between hummingbird and mockingbird

is that hummingbird is any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover while mockingbird is a long-tailed American songbird of the Mimidae family, noted for its ability to mimic calls of other birds.

hummingbird

English

(wikipedia 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, [...]

    Related terms

    (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae) * trochilidine

    See also

    * snowcap

    mockingbird

    English

    (wikipedia mockingbird)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long-tailed American songbird of the Mimidae family, noted for its ability to mimic calls of other birds.

    • Usage notes

    * the family Mimidae (mimids]]) also includes thrashers, tremblers and the New World [[catbird, catbirds.