different between thrasher vs mockingbird

English

Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash +? -er.

thrasher (plural thrashers)

One who thrashes.
Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
A thresher shark.
(informal) A fan of thrash metal music.

From mocking +? bird, from the ability of the birds to mimic sounds and, in some cases, human speech.

mockingbird (plural mockingbirds)

A long-tailed American songbird of the Mimidae family, noted for its ability to mimic calls of other birds.
Synonym: mocker
(archaic) Synonym of tui (“a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”)

The family Mimidae (mimids) also includes thrashers, tremblers, and the New World catbirds.

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