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Nightingale vs Fauvette - What's the difference?

nightingale | fauvette |

As nouns the difference between nightingale and fauvette

is that nightingale is a European songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, of the family Muscicapidae while fauvette is a small songbird, such as a nightingale or warbler.

nightingale

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A European songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos , of the family Muscicapidae.

    • Synonyms

    * philomel

    See also

    * thrush nightingale

    fauvette

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small songbird, such as a nightingale or warbler.
  • * 1853 , (James Rennie), Bird-architecture (page 287)
    • On the other hand a young owl, which had as yet only been fed by hand, began of itself to eat by devouring a fauvette which was lodged with it.
    (Webster 1913) ----