blackpoll

noun

black·poll ˈblak-ˌpōl

: a North American warbler (Dendroica striata) with the male having a black cap when in breeding plumage

Examples of blackpoll in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Plymouth County and the South Coast: The South Shore hosted an orchard oriole and a black vulture in Plympton, a blackpoll warbler at Manomet, six red crossbills in Myles Standish State Forest, and a Mississippi kite at Plymouth Municipal Airport. —

BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021 Additional sightings included Northern shovelers, blackpoll warblers and black-and-white warblers lingering on the island. —

BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019 Three royal terns were at Fort Hill in Eastham, and other sightings included individual blackpoll, Wilson’s, and chestnut-sided warblers. —

BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019 Plum Island: Observers reported an American wigeon, a parasitic jaeger, two Wilson’s storm-petrels, two Manx shearwaters, an American bittern, three field sparrows, and a blackpoll warbler. —

BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2019

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