Difference between Firebird and Hangbird

What is the difference between Firebird and Hangbird?

Firebird as a noun is the scarlet tanager, a species of bird with taxonomic name piranga olivacea while Hangbird as a noun is the baltimore oriole (icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree.

Firebird

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The scarlet tanager, a species of bird with taxonomic name Piranga olivacea The Baltimore oriole, a species of bird with taxonomic name Icterus galbula The vermilion flycatcher, a species of bird with taxonomic name Pyrocephalus rubinus

Hangbird

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree.

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