Definition of warbler
2a : any of numerous small chiefly Old World oscine birds (family Sylviidae) many of which are noted songsters and are closely related to the thrushesb : any of numerous small brightly colored American oscine birds (family Parulidae) with a usually weak and unmusical song —called also wood warbler
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The park is home to lots of wildlife, including hundreds of birds like warblers, loons, bald eagles and peregrine falcons, which visit throughout the year.
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The yellowthroat is considered a New World warbler with a range extending from southern Canada to central Mexico.
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If there exists a Platonic ideal of a bird egg, an ovum shaped most like all the others, it is not laid by a chicken but by a small warbler called the graceful prinia.
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The area is unusually abundant with animal life: the novel’s first chapter teems with wagtails, willow warblers, geese, horses, snow leopards, wolves, sheep, goats, geckos, and frogs.
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Birding trip to Calvert County Travel by van to Flag Ponds and Battle Creek Cypress Swamp for a hike and search of scarlet tanagers and hooded and Kentucky warblers.
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Free; registration required. Birding trip to Calvert County Travel by van to Flag Ponds and Battle Creek Cypress Swamp for a hike and search of scarlet tanagers and hooded and Kentucky warblers.
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Her shortest wait was 20 minutes for a yellow warbler.
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The more than 30 species of warblers that pass through Ohio each spring received their own slide show in The Plain Dealer and on Cleveland.com on April 23.
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First Known Use of warbler
circa 1611
WARBLER Defined for English Language Learners
warbler
playDefinition of warbler for English Language Learners
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: any one of many different kinds of small singing birds that live in America and Europe
WARBLER Defined for Kids
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1 : an Old World bird related to the thrush and noted for its musical song
2 : a brightly colored American bird having a song that is usually weak and not musical
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