magnolia warbler

noun

1. a black and yellow wood warbler, Dendroica magnolia, of North America.

Word History and Origins

Origin of magnolia warbler¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

Georgia’s Jekyll Island, once the seasonal playground of the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, offers a refuge to the northern parula, the magnolia warbler and other birds.

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The Eastern-breeding magnolia warbler, for example, spends winters in areas in the Yucatan Peninsula and Central America that are fractions of the size of its breeding range.

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Breeding, migration and winter abundance of the magnolia warbler based on computer models using eBird data.

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It’s a hard heart that inures to seeing a magnolia warbler, but a gray catbird changes the dynamic, cranking out its full rebuke before Sarver can even get it out of the bag.

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“Magnolia warbler,” she tells a video camera set against a hole at the shed’s entrance.

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