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Passerine vs Currawong - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between passerine and currawong

is that passerine is any bird of the order passeriformes, which comprises more than half of all bird species while currawong is any of the three species, and several subspecies, of large, mainly black, predatory passerine birds in the genus strepera , of the family artamidae, endemic to australia.

As an adjective passerine

is of, or relating to a passerine or perching bird.

passerine

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any bird of the order Passeriformes, which comprises more than half of all bird species.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to a passerine or perching bird.

    • Anagrams

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    currawong

    English

    (wikipedia currawong) (Strepera)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the three species, and several subspecies, of large, mainly black, predatory passerine birds in the genus Strepera , of the family Artamidae, endemic to Australia.
  • * 1983 , Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers , Penguin 2009, p. 68:
    • Currawongs and cookaburras woke him early.
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 174:
  • *:She has small unblinking eyes like a currawong , turning its head on one side and staring malevolently […].

    • Derived terms

    * black currawong * black-winged currawong * brown currawong * clinking currawong * grey currawong * pied currawong