wood warbler

/wʊd ˌwɔrb(ə)lər/

Other forms: wood warblers

Definitions of wood warbler

1. noun

   small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song
   synonyms: New World warbler

   types:

   Parula americana, northern parula, parula warbler

   small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast; of eastern North America

   Wilson's blackcap, Wilson's warbler, Wilsonia pusilla

   yellow wood warbler with a black crown

   flycatching warbler

   any of numerous American wood warblers that feed on insects caught on the wing

   Cape May warbler, Dendroica tigrina

   North American wood warbler; olive green and yellow striped with black

   Dendroica petechia, golden warbler, yellow warbler, yellowbird

   yellow-throated American wood warbler

   Blackburn, Blackburnian warbler, Dendroica fusca

   black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat

   Audubon warbler, Audubon's warbler, Dendroica auduboni

   common warbler of western North America

   Dendroica coronata, myrtle bird, myrtle warbler

   similar to Audubon's warbler

   Dendroica striate, blackpoll

   North American warbler having a black-and-white head

   New World chat, chat

   birds having a chattering call

   Seiurus aurocapillus, ovenbird

   American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground

   water thrush

   brownish North American warbler found near streams

   yellowthroat

   small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat

   American redstart, Setophaga ruticilla, redstart

   flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail

   Icteria virens, yellow-breasted chat

   American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds

   Geothlypis trichas, Maryland yellowthroat, common yellowthroat

   an American warbler

   type of:

   warbler

   a small active songbird
2. noun

   European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage
   synonyms: Phylloscopus sibilatrix

   type of:

   Old World warbler, true warbler

   small active brownish or greyish Old World birds