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warbler Definition

war·bler (wôrblər)

noun

  1. a bird or person that warbles; singer; songster
  2. ☆ any of a large, New World passerine family (Parulidae) of small, insect-eating birds, many of which are brightly colored, as the yellow warbler, the prothonotary warbler, or the American redstart; wood warbler
  3. any of a large, mainly Old World, passerine family (Sylviidae) of small songbirds, including the whitethroats
warbler Synonyms

warbler

n.

singer, songster, songbird; see bird 1.

Varieties of warblers include: bluethroat, whitethroat, black-cap, reed, sedge, wood, pine, black-throated blue, chestnut-sided, yellow, hooded, worm-eating, Cape May, arctic, prairie, blackpoll, Dartford, grasshopper, Savi's, willow, goldcrest, yellow-throat, olive-backed, golden-crowned, Cerulean; ovenbird, water thrush, redstart, wood wren.

warbler Usage Examples

Possessives

  • cetti: Recent breeding successes also include bearded tit, water rail and cetti's warbler.

Converse of object

  • sing: Singing Orphean Warbler in the area, on another road south, and many migrant warblers, not singing.
  • winter: BirdWatch Ireland - all Ireland Conference, Mike Toms will be speaking at this conference on wintering warblers.
  • hear: At the trees in Merlin Dean we heard a willow warbler, a summer visitor.
  • see: Only Sylvia warbler seen here - a mail Orphean Warbler.
  • include: Sure that we and through the portion of the birds including warblers.

Adjective modifier

  • Sardinian: Along this stretch of road we also found our first Sardinian Warblers of the trip.
  • Orphean: Still, we had nice views of 7 Rock Sparrows and 1 Western Orphean Warbler at the car park.
  • fan-tailed: Fan-tailed Warblers sung, as did a very secretive Reed Warbler, and a few Little and Cattle Egrets wandered over.
  • olivaceous: Olivaceous warbler The common breeding warbler of open parkland.
  • spectacled: There were three little stint at the edge and spectacled warblers were seen well here.
  • mustached: They took me to this nest and I was surprised to find it occupied by five ready to fly Mustached warblers.

Modifies a noun

  • singing: Take a stroll around Doxey in the spring to hear sedge warblers, reed bunting and other warblers singing.
  • specie: Check the cover around the campsite as we saw several warbler species there and keep an eye on the sky for raptors.

Noun used with modifier

  • sedge: A close relative of the sedge warbler with a rather similar song style.
  • grasshopper: Grasshopper Warblers appear most years, often in the scrubby areas near the gas towers.
  • willow: At the trees in Merlin Dean we heard a willow warbler, a summer visitor.
  • cettis: A male cettis warbler was singing constantly, looks like he's going to try again here this year.
  • reed: Figure 1. A reed warbler with a juvenile cuckoo.
  • wood: Our second wood warbler sang for long enough to allow us to track it down.
warbler Quotes

   The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

—Gray,Thomas

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