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Various Passeriformes (perching birds) are commonly referred to as warblers. They are not necessarily closely related to one another, but share some characteristics, such as being fairly small, vocal, and insectivorous .
The name warbler is a misnomer for the New World group of warblers established before the family was split from the Old World warbler in the 1830s. The Random House Dictionary defines "to warble" as "to sing with trills." Most New World warblers do not warble, but rather "lisp, buzz, hiss, chip, rollick, or zip." [6]
Twitchers watching a mega—Britain's fifth-ever white-tailed lapwing—and probably adding a lifer to their list; see text for explanation of italicised terms. Twitchers' vocabulary is the set of jargon words used by twitchers (committed birdwatchers who travel long distances to see a new species to add a species to their "life list", year list or other list).
The coastal black-throated green warbler is also known as the Wayne’s warbler, a nod to the person who first described it in 1909. It is a subpecies of the much more common black-throated green ...
The yellow-rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata) is a regular North American bird species that can be commonly observed all across the continent.Its extensive range connects both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the U.S. as well as Canada and Central America, with the population concentrated in the continent's northern reaches during the breeding season and migrating southwards to southern ...
Hooded Warbler in Audubon's Birds of America. The hooded warbler is a small bird and mid-sized warbler, measuring 13 cm (5.1 in) in length and weighing 9–12 g (0.32–0.42 oz). [13] The hooded warbler has a wingspan of 6.9 in (17.5 cm). [14] It has a plain olive/green-brown back and yellow underparts. Their outer rectrices have whitish vanes ...
The Blackburnian warbler (Setophaga fusca) is a small New World warbler. They breed in eastern North America , from southern Canada , westwards to the southern Canadian Prairies , the Great Lakes region and New England , to North Carolina .
Cettia / ˈ tʃ ɛ t iː ə / is a genus of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers") which make up the core of the newly recognized family Cettiidae.They were formerly placed in the Sylviidae, which at that time was a wastebin taxon for the warbler-like Sylvioidea.