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A small active songbird
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warbler
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There are a number of Passeriformes (perching birds) called warblers . They are not necessarily closely related to one another, but share some characteristics, such as being fairly small, vocal, and insectivorous . They are mostly brownish or dull greenish ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warbler \War"bler\, n. One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds. In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo. --Tickell. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN reed ▪ A cuckoo flew low over the reed bed, to be mobbed at once by two reed warblers . ▪ Opposite A pair of reed warblers work flat out to keep the young cuckoo satisfied. ▪ In Britain the main hosts are the reed warbler ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Parulidae (New World warblers). 2 One who warbles. 3 (context UK slang English) A hissy fit.
Usage examples of warbler.
We went with this from warblers, sparrows, pewees, all through past eagles and were just ready for condors when something deep in me gave way to outrage.
Oshima had read about one ancient master who had instructed his warrior-pupil to construct a verse about the Uguisu, the warbler, or Japanese nightingale.
All the birds I saw, which were prothonotary warblers, were descended from a single pair released back then.
He was the sole salesman, and had been since Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one, He was the man who had released from the hot cage of his hands and into this enchanted space the first two prothonotary warblers.
The song of a prothonotary warbler is notoriously monotonous, as I am the first to admit.
I am not about to risk the credibility of my entire tale by claiming that prothonotary warblers rival the Boston Pops Orchestra with their songs.
Somewhere along the stream a pileated woodpecker began drumming against a tree trunk in search of an insect snack and the racket startled a pair of prothonotary warblers from their roost in a nearby hackberry sapling.
Small warblers and flycatchers flitted from thicket to tall tree, while tiny stints, redstarts, and shrikes darted from branch to branch.
The same held true for island warblers, which flitted through the trees after insects like their counterparts on the far side of the Hesperian Gulf.
Then the screes and cries of birds sounded, for the bird-sellers were shaking the small wooden cages packed with wood pigeons, owls, mousebirds, bee-eaters, hummingbirds, crows, blue rockthrushes, warblers, flycatchers, wagtails, hawks, falcons, eagles, and all manner of swans, ducks, chickens, and geese.
They could hear ovenbirds and protho-notary warblers singing in the woods, but apart from that the air was curiously still, as if their intrusion into the grounds of Le Reposoir had been noticed by nature at large, and a general breath was being held until they were discovered.
I am not about to risk the credibility of my entire tale by claiming that prothonotary warblers rival the Boston Pops Orchestra with their songs.
Biters swarmed in clouds about Karigan and The Horse, stealing away any pleasure they might have found in the budding of wildflowers, and the trills of warblers recently arrived from the south.
He heard the low pitch of warblers singing to each other, while a blackcap swooped down into a glade off to his right, disappearing briefly into a tangle of hawthorn and rooting around until it found the insect noticed from the air.
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