warbler

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Certainly escapes make up a vastly more significant aspect of our avifauna than, say Bay-breasted warbler which is quite rightly on the list due to the capture of a single specimen at our only ringing station.

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  1. noun Any of various small New World songbirds of the family Parulidae, many of which have brightly colored plumage or markings, as the redstart and the chat. Also called wood warbler.
  2. noun Any of various small, often brownish or grayish Old World songbirds of the family Silviidae, as the blackcap and the whitethroat.
  3. noun Music One that warbles; a singer.

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  • Her brother whistled like a warbler, drawing her attention back to him. —  Witch Fire.htm
  • Certainly escapes make up a vastly more significant aspect of our avifauna than, say Bay-breasted warbler which is quite rightly on the list due to the capture of a single specimen at our only ringing station. —  Earth, Wind & Water
  • Amongst these may be mentioned the blue-throated warbler, ortolan bunting, Lapland bunting, shore lark, red-throated pipit, tree warbler, and many others Then there are birds which are common enough in England in the winter, but which mostly go away to Norwegian breeding-grounds, such as geese, ducks, woodcock, and snipe; while bramblings, fieldfares, and redwings are birds of the North, and never nest in Great Britain. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
  • One thing more I ought to tell you; not to confuse the reed-bunting with the reed-warbler, a very different bird, which very probably we may notice in to-day's ramble Illustration: WHIRLIGIG BEETLE, MAGNIFIED We now had another look into the canal, and saw numerous little whirligig beetles, performing their merry-go-rounds on the top of the water. —  Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
  • The sedge-warbler, like the migratory warblers generally, comes to us in April and leaves us in September. —  Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
 

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