How to Use warbler in a Sentence

warbler

noun
  • This time, the warbler saw the hawk and not the other way around.
    Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The warbler was on the brink of extinction 30 years ago.
    Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
  • How much longer Townsend will be able to claim his warbler, though, is unclear.
    Kate Sayers, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2021
  • Dapper gray warbler with red face, black head-band and white rump.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This is the prime time to find migrating fall warblers, vireos, and kinglets.
    courant.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • No wind, So that stirring in the cottonwood Must be a warbler.
    Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Many insect eaters like warblers have already flown the coop.
    Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 7 Sep. 2019
  • At Horn Pond, an indigo bunting and a Cape May warbler.
    Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • In one image, the cuckoos can be seen with its jaws wide open coming closer to the small birds, a bunting and a warbler.
    Fox News, 24 June 2020
  • More than 200 species have been spotted here — look for warblers, vireos and hawks.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Weeks said, adding that warblers were among the types of birds that were exhibiting the most dramatic changes.
    NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Grace’s warbler, Harris’s hawk and dozens of other birds.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • Keep an eye out for the 55 species that nest at the park, including the bright yellow warbler and the least bell’s vireo (the babies will soon be fledging!).
    Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Kirtland’s warblers lay eggs in nests built on the ground under the low-hanging branches of jack pine trees.
    Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2019
  • The extinct bird species once found in Alabama is the Bachman’s warbler.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The distinctive trilling of bush warblers and the drone of cicadas are deployed in films as aural markers of place and time.
    Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Sometimes a warbler’s flitting would cause a shower of white petals.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 24 May 2018
  • Take, for example, the golden-winged warbler, a species that has faced one of the steepest declines of all songbirds over the last 45 years.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • One of his favorite birds, the Blackburnian warbler, can be spotted in the park.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The same may be true for pine warblers, Eastern bluebirds, brown thrashers and some others.
    Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Mice and voles were often on the menu, as were birds ranging from the tiny Wilson’s warbler to the much larger black-headed grosbeak.
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • There was a prairie warbler at the Cohasset Golf Course in Cohasset.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The Backman's warbler, one of America's rarest songbirds, also is on the list.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The mornings after a front’s passage can be alive with warblers, vireos and tanagers zipping through the trees and shrubs.
    Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Birds that migrate at night, like sparrows and warblers, rely on the stars to navigate.
    Todd Richmond, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The warbler lay on its back for a couple of seconds before sensing its freedom.
    Bruce M. Beehler, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Some of the birds included in the drop off include warblers, blackbirds, starlings, robins, and sparrows.
    Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • In the 1950s, Robert MacArthur went into the remote woods of coastal Maine to observe warbler populations.
    Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, 26 July 2019
  • Scientists also will keep an eye on the Bahamas, where the warblers spend winters.
    Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • During the spring and fall seasons, New York City birders can spot a wide range of species, from orioles, to warblers, to golden eagles.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 Dec. 2019

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