What is "ovenbird"

Ovenbird \Ov"en*bird`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)

1. Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct curious oven-shaped nests.

2. In the United States, Seiurus aurocapillus; -- called also golden-crowned thrush.

3. In England, sometimes applied to the willow warbler, and to the long-tailed titmouse.

n. 1 Any of several birds 2 # (context British English) Any of several small birds that build dome-shaped nests; the long-tailed tit, willow warbler and chiffchaff 3 # (context US English) A warbler, ''Seiurus auricapillus'', that builds such a nest of vegetation 4 # (''Central America'') Any of several passerine birds that build such nests of mud

1. n. American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground [syn: Seiurus aurocapillus]

2. small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests

Ovenbirds or furnariids are a large family of small suboscine passerine birds found in Mexico, and Central and South America. They form the family Furnariidae. The ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillus), which breeds in North America, is not actually a furnariid – rather it is a distantly related bird of the wood warbler family, Parulidae.

The ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family (Parulidae). This migratory bird breeds in eastern North America and winters in Central America, many Caribbean Islands, Florida, and northern Venezuela.

The ovenbird is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. It may also refer to:

• Ovenbird (family) a large classification of birds in the Furnariidae family
• " The Oven Bird", a 1916 poem by Robert Frost