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  • Except I don't know that they sing much I've never seen one making noise other than pecking, whereas a Jay or a Crow, you can hear them, and while the song isn't lyric in quite the way that a warbler's is, it's thrilling and insistently alive.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Bardiac 2008

  • Except I don't know that they sing much I've never seen one making noise other than pecking, whereas a Jay or a Crow, you can hear them, and while the song isn't lyric in quite the way that a warbler's is, it's thrilling and insistently alive.

    Feathers Bardiac 2008

  • For the glad warbler's melody brings but the memory of voices departed.

    Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance

  • In a warbler's nest, a dozen feet from the ground, he beheld five speckled eggs.

    The Tale of Major Monkey Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • Another warbler's trill was heard in the thicket, but I was unable to identify the singer that evening, for he kept himself conscientiously hidden in the tanglewood.

    Birds of the Rockies 1896

  • One evening I was searching for a couple of blue grosbeaks at the border of Colorado Springs, where I had previously seen them, when a loud, somewhat percussive song, much like the summer warbler's, burst on my ear, coming from a clump of willow bushes hard by the stream.

    Birds of the Rockies 1896

  • Indeed, the warbler's favorite method of going about is with his head directed toward the sky rather than the reverse, while it really seems that the nuthatch's predilection is to scuttle about in an inverted position.

    Our Bird Comrades 1896

  • In a minute I was pressing the weeds apart and looking down admiringly into the little cot with its four half-fledged occupants -- the first Kentucky warbler's nest I had ever seen.

    Our Bird Comrades 1896

  • In the spring of 1902 another hooded warbler's nest rewarded my search.

    Our Bird Comrades 1896

  • For the glad warbler's melody brings but the memory of voices departed.

    The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878

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