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Definition of ovenbird in English: ovenbirdnoun ˈʌv(ə)nbəːdˈəvənˌbərd 1A small, drab tropical American bird belonging to a diverse family, many members of which make domed nests of mud. 灶鸟 Family Furnariidae (the ovenbird family): many genera and numerous species. The ovenbird family comprises the horneros, miners, spinetails, and many others Example sentencesExamples - Playing the louder calls on the ground increased visits by predators there, he found, but playing the relatively soft begging calls of ovenbirds from tree nests did not.
- Nonetheless, the West Indian thrashers and tremblers are so distinctive that early workers grouped them variously with the ant thrushes, ovenbirds, wrens, and thrushes.
- As we stroll on, we hear ovenbirds, see a towhee in the brush, and, down at Lake Perez, see a wood duck, tree swallows, a pair of spotted sandpipers, an osprey, and quite possibly the fattest robin I've ever seen.
- Their closest relatives are the ovenbirds (family Furnariidae).
- On a spring morning several years ago, I saw a tiny ovenbird that was walking north on Park Avenue, probably exhausted by its migratory flight from South America.
- In 1996 ornithologists announced the discovery of a new species of Neotropical ovenbird, the pink-legged graveteiro, within the rustic cacao farms of the state of Bahia, Brazil.
- Suboscines, which include flycatchers, ant-birds, woodcreepers, and ovenbirds, are now diverse in the New World, with about 1,100 species, nearly all of them in South America.
- Suboscines are particularly well represented, with vocalizations of more than 350 (!) species of ovenbirds, antbirds, tyrant flycatchers, and the like.
2A migratory brown North American warbler that builds a domed nest of vegetation on the ground. 橙顶灶莺 Seiurus aurocapillus, family Parulidae Example sentencesExamples - Research in Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia shows that forest birds like the American redstart, hooded warbler, Kentucky warbler, worm-eating warbler, ovenbird, wood thrush, and veery are all vulnerable to deer overpopulation.
- Some species of ovenbirds are migratory, others are sedentary.
OriginEarly 19th century: from oven and bird (with allusion to the domed or arched shape of many traditional forms of bread oven). Definition of ovenbird in US English: ovenbirdnounˈəvənˌbərd 1A small tropical American bird belonging to a diverse family, many members of which make domed nests of mud. 灶鸟 Family Furnariidae (the ovenbird family): many genera and numerous species. The ovenbird family comprises the horneros, miners,and many others Example sentencesExamples - Suboscines, which include flycatchers, ant-birds, woodcreepers, and ovenbirds, are now diverse in the New World, with about 1,100 species, nearly all of them in South America.
- Their closest relatives are the ovenbirds (family Furnariidae).
- Nonetheless, the West Indian thrashers and tremblers are so distinctive that early workers grouped them variously with the ant thrushes, ovenbirds, wrens, and thrushes.
- On a spring morning several years ago, I saw a tiny ovenbird that was walking north on Park Avenue, probably exhausted by its migratory flight from South America.
- Suboscines are particularly well represented, with vocalizations of more than 350 (!) species of ovenbirds, antbirds, tyrant flycatchers, and the like.
- In 1996 ornithologists announced the discovery of a new species of Neotropical ovenbird, the pink-legged graveteiro, within the rustic cacao farms of the state of Bahia, Brazil.
- As we stroll on, we hear ovenbirds, see a towhee in the brush, and, down at Lake Perez, see a wood duck, tree swallows, a pair of spotted sandpipers, an osprey, and quite possibly the fattest robin I've ever seen.
- Playing the louder calls on the ground increased visits by predators there, he found, but playing the relatively soft begging calls of ovenbirds from tree nests did not.
2A migratory brown North American warbler that builds a domed nest of vegetation on the ground. 橙顶灶莺 Seiurus aurocapillus, subfamily Parulinae, family Emberizidae Example sentencesExamples - Research in Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia shows that forest birds like the American redstart, hooded warbler, Kentucky warbler, worm-eating warbler, ovenbird, wood thrush, and veery are all vulnerable to deer overpopulation.
- Some species of ovenbirds are migratory, others are sedentary.
OriginEarly 19th century: from oven and bird (with allusion to the domed or arched shape of many traditional forms of bread oven). |