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Starling vs Killdeer - What's the difference?

starling | killdeer |

As a proper noun starling

is from a nickname for a gregarious person.

As a noun killdeer is

a north american plover (charadrius vociferus ) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.

starling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
  • # The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris , which has dark, iridescent plumage.
  • A structure of pilings that protects the piers of a bridge.
  • A California fish, the .

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    killdeer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * killdee * kill-deer

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A North American plover (Charadrius vociferus ) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 50:
    • A kill-deer , flying so low as to dip its wings, ever and anon alighted on the margin, its stilt-like legs half submerged as it ran hither and thither, now and then bending to dig in the sand with its long slender bill.