Nightingale vs Robin - What's the difference?
nightingale | robin |
Various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly ), typically with a red breast.
# A European robin; ''Erithacus rubecula.
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# An American robin; Turdus migratorius .
As nouns the difference between nightingale and robin
is that nightingale is a European songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, of the family Muscicapidae while robin is various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly family: Eopsaltridae), typically with a red breast.As a proper noun Robin is
a given name derived from Germanic.robin
English
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