warbler

1. a person or thing that warbles

2. any small active passerine songbird of the Old World subfamily Sylviinae: family Muscicapidae. They have a cryptic plumage and slender bill and are arboreal insectivores

3. any small bird of the American family Parulidae, similar to the Old World forms but often brightly coloured

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Warbler

the name of several genera of small songbirds of the family Sylviidae. These genera include Acrocephalus, Locustella, Phragmaticola, Cettia, and Horeites. The plumage above is brownish and monochromatic or striped; the underside is lighter in color. Males and females are colored alike.

Warblers are found throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. Inthe USSR there are approximately 20 species, distributed in allzones except the tundra. Many species dwell in shrub thickets orin waterside reeds; some species live in forests or gardens. War-blers are migratory birds. Their nests are usually open; however, sometimes they have roofs. The nests are built in shrubs andreeds or, less often, on the ground. The clutch contains betweenfour and six eggs. Warblers feed on insects, spiders, and smallmollusks.

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We also considered the suite of 17 transient wood warblers together [excluding Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata coronate), which was abundant]: Golden-winged (Vermivora chrysoptera), Tennessee (Oreothlypis peregrina), Orange-crowned (O.

Tree species preferences of foraging songbirds during spring migration in floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River

Wales holds 69% of all the Pied Flycatchers in the UK, and the country is also important for Redstarts (55%) and Wood Warbler (43%), all of which breed in the "Celtic Rainforests" of north west Wales.

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THE photograph of a moss-green bird dining at her peanut feeder by Mrs Scott of Penarth is probably a wood warbler (phylloscopus sibilatrix) - though it could be the much more rare Pallas' warbler, also green and wearing the striking light eyebrow and wing stripes.

Straight to the point

Old oak and hazel are features, as are birds like grey wagtail, wood warbler and dipper, which live up to their name by dipping into the fast-running waters of the burn that has fashioned itself a picturesque gorge.

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When leaves and snow fall in the White Mountains, the duo follows these painted birdlets - two of the best-known species in the wood warbler multitude - to their wintering places in Jamaica.

Tale of two warblers

The Welsh woodland trio of Redstart, Pied Flycatcher and Wood Warbler are back on their nesting sites, but a Wood Warbler at RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands is more unusual, sharing the site with a Cattle Egret and Garganey in recent days.

BIRD NOTES With Julian Hughes

YELLOW WAGTAIL Species such as the yellow wagtail, wood warbler and spotted flycatcher have declined at least 25 per cent in the past 10 years.

SAVE OUR SPECIES; Global warming won't just affect species that live in the coldest parts of our planet, like the polar bear. The effects of melting glaciers will be felt in our own back gardens. Ros Wynne-Jones reports, in day four of our Save The Planet week, on how Britain's flora and fauna will change for ever..

They include common and honey buzzard, cuckoo, curlew, dipper, goosander, goshawk, great spotted woodpecker, kingfisher, peregrine, sand martin, spotted and pied flycatcher, tawny owl, tree creeper, willow and wood warbler and raven.

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Roedd telor yr helyg (Phylloscopus trochilus; willow warbler) a thelor y coed (Phylloscopus sibilatrix; wood warbler) yn canu wrth i ni gerdded a bob hyn a hyn roedd y tingoch (redstart) i'w glywed.

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The whinchat joins fellow long-distance migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa and humid tropics, such as the cuckoo and wood warbler on the Red list.

55 bird species under threat INWALEs - report; nature watch Danny Griffiths, RSPB

Ond yn y canol clywyd rhywogaethau mwy anarferol, ac un gweddol brin hyd yn oed, megis y gwybedog brith (pied flycatcher); y tingoch (redstart); y siff-siaff (chiffchaff), y dryw, y dryw eurben (goldcrest) a'r un mwyaf prin, telor y coed (wood warbler).

Can yr adar yn nhegwch y bore

The other three are wood warbler, pied flycatcher and redstart, which winter south of the Sahara.

Classic Welsh upland bird under threat