wood warbler

American  

noun

1. warbler.

2. a yellowish-green European warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix.

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wood warbler British  

noun

1. a European woodland warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix, with a dull yellow plumage

2. another name for the American warbler See warbler

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Etymology

Origin of wood warbler

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

The cerulean warbler is a rare wood warbler that breeds in Eastern forests but winters in the tropics.

From Washington Post

A wood warbler, on the contrary, always brings before me the rush and hurry of the world of people, and the wood pewee its under-current of eternal sadness.

From Upon The Tree-Tops by Miller, Olive Thorne

When Carrigan opened his eyes, and understanding came to him, he found himself under the silver birch that belonged to the wood warbler.

From The Flaming Forest by Curwood, James Oliver

A tiny, brown wood warbler fluttered out to the end of a silvery birch limb, and it seemed to David that its throat must surely burst with the burden of its song.

From The Flaming Forest by Curwood, James Oliver

The wood warbler was cheeping inquiringly at this sudden change in the deportment of his friend behind the shoulder of shale.

From The Flaming Forest by Curwood, James Oliver