: any of numerous small chiefly Old World oscine birds (family Sylviidae) many of which are noted songsters and are closely related to the thrushes
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: any of numerous small brightly colored American oscine birds (family Parulidae) with a usually weak and unmusical song
called alsowood warbler
Illustration of warbler
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Recent Examples on the WebThere was an eastern bluebird bright as the summer sky, a palm warbler with a jaunty chestnut-brown cap, and a snow-white great egret standing 3 feet tall. Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 Other sightings around the Cape included 4 continuing little blue herons at Santuit Pond in Mashpee, a blue-winged warbler in Eastham, a black vulture in Orleans, and a great cormorant in Provincetown Harbor.BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022 Pond in Brookline, an acadian flycatcher at the Sharon Memorial Cemetery in Sharon, and a mourning warbler in Dedham.BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022 Grace’s warbler, Harris’s hawk and dozens of other birds. John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 July 2022 An Acadian flycatcher in Granville and a hooded warbler at the Grace Robson Sanctuary in Westfield.BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2022 Thick with sycamores, oaks, and sweet pecans, bottomland forests like these can then support migratory birds, from the endangered Bachman’s warbler to the recovering bald eagle. W. Hodding Carter, Outside Online, 29 June 2011 One of his favorite birds, the Blackburnian warbler, can be spotted in the park. The Editors, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2020 Despite pressure from housing developments and groundwater depletion, habitat for six imperiled species — a warbler, a bat, two salamanders and two plants — still exists.New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022 See More