Kirtland's warbler

Kirt·land's warbler

noun

A warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii) with a yellow breast and gray back that nests only in jack pine forests of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

Origin of Kirtland's warbler

After Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877), American naturalist and physician

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Noun

(plural Kirtland's warblers)

a small songbird, Dendroica kirtlandii, that nests in Michigan, United States and winters in the Bahamas

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