What's the difference between ousel and ouzel?

Ousel


Definition:

  • (n.) One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

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Ouzel


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Ousel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By legally trapping and killing stoats and foxes to ensure plentiful supplies of grouse, he helped conserve endangered birds: woodcock, snipe, golden plover, lapwing, ring ouzel, and “buckets and buckets of curlew”.
  • (2) He showed us where a ring-ouzel was nesting in the heather, and a pet raven whom he'd rescued when it had fallen from its nest."

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