Crossword clues for warbler
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warbler \War"bler\, n.
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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 family Sylviid[ae], many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species.
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(Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltid[ae], or Sylvicolin[ae]. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical.
Note: The American warblers are often divided, according to their habits, into bush warblers, creeping warblers, fly-catching warblers, ground warblers, wood warblers, wormeating warblers, etc.
Bush warbler (Zo["o]l.) any American warbler of the genus Opornis, as the Connecticut warbler ( Opornis agilis).
Creeping warbler (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of very small American warblers belonging to Parula, Mniotilta, and allied genera, as the blue yellow-backed warbler ( Parula Americana), and the black-and-white creeper ( Mniotilta varia).
Fly-catching warbler (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of warblers belonging to Setophaga, Sylvania, and allied genera having the bill hooked and notched at the tip, with strong rictal bristles at the base, as the hooded warbler ( Sylvania mitrata), the black-capped warbler ( Sylvania pusilla), the Canadian warbler ( Sylvania Canadensis), and the American redstart (see Redstart).
Ground warbler (Zo["o]l.), any American warbler of the genus Geothlypis, as the mourning ground warbler ( G. Philadelphia), and the Maryland yellowthroat (see Yellowthroat).
Wood warbler (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous American warblers of the genus Dendroica. Among the most common wood warblers in the Eastern States are the yellowbird, or yellow warbler (see under Yellow), the black-throated green warbler ( Dendroica virens), the yellow-rumped warbler ( Dendroica coronata), the blackpoll ( D. striata), the bay-breasted warbler ( Dendroica castanea), the chestnut-sided warbler ( Dendroica Pennsylvanica), the Cape May warbler ( Dendroica tigrina), the prairie warbler (see under Prairie), and the pine warbler ( Dendroica pinus). See also Magnolia warbler, under Magnolia, and Blackburnian warbler.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, agent noun from warble (v.). Applied to Old World songbirds by 1773 and to North American birds that look like them but sing little by 1783.
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.
WordNet
n. a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song
a small active songbird
Wikipedia
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 in color. They tend to be more easily heard than seen. Identification can be difficult and may be made on the basis of song alone. To English-speaking Europeans, warblers are the archetypal "LBJs" ( little brown jobs).
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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