What's the difference between babillard and warbler?
Babillard
Definition:
(n.) The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.
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Warbler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidae, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltidae, or Sylvicolinae. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical.
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(1) The Welch warbler does it and I believe that's all the bases covered: Bitta street cred with Dizzee, NME fodder with Kasabian, bitta Brit pop with JLS and prizes for the new wave of British female performers (Lily, Florence).
(2) Garden warblers are able to learn an association between time of day and feeding place.
(3) Anomalies included one instance of duplicate hearts, two specimens in which no heart could be identified and in a fourth, a yellow-rumped warbler, the heart lay in the neck outside of the thoracic cavity.
(4) The origin of major functional shifts from changes in a small fraction of the genome is illustrated by polar bears, sea otters, warblers, vultures, and especially by humans.
(5) What we’re left with is something that allows them to detect a storm from a long distance, and the one thing that seems to be the most obvious is infrasound from tornadoes, which travels through the ground.” The scientists had fitted trackers to 20 golden-winged warblers in 2013.
(6) When the storm moved over the study area, battering it with winds of up to 160 kilometres per hour, the warblers were on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
(7) Among the rareties: ivory gull, sharp-tailed sandpiper, lark sparrow and warblers from every corner of the western hemisphere.
(8) We watched the volunteers ringing and measuring goldfinches and warblers – a fascinating way to see wild birds very close up – then saw them fly off.
(9) "This is an important area for all kinds of creatures – reed warblers, ducks, newts, frogs and beetles.''
(10) The golden-winged warblers had just returned from South America to their breeding grounds in the mountains of Tennessee in 2013 when a massive storm was edging closer.
(11) A pathogenic agent designated AV 172 was isolated from the blood of a Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) out of 767 samples from birds belonging to 35 species and 14 families.
(12) One woodpecker finch, Cactospiza pallida, was found to be infected with I. exigua, and a warbler finch, Certhidea olivacea was infected with I. fragmenta.
(13) Dartford warblers have been steadily moving northwards in the UK while declining on the southern edge of their range in Spain.
(14) Here we describe the use of a bird minisatellite DNA probe in assigning paternity in natural populations of the monogamous willow warbler Phylloscopus trochilus and of the polygynous wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix.
(15) Migratory birds including the whitethroat , reed warbler and song thrush are arriving earlier, three species of Japanese amphibians have been found to be breeding earlier, while the edible dormouse has been emerging earlier from hibernation by an average of eight days per decade.
(16) Transmural lymphocytic enteritis was diagnosed in thirteen Nashville warblers (Vermivora ruficapilla) during an epornitic with high mortality.
(17) Walter tries to persuade himself that the ecological damage can be minimised and is worth the price of saving the warbler.
(18) There are reports from South Yorkshire of common darter dragonflies on sunny days this month, toads and frogs that would usually be hibernating were seen last week, and there was a rare sighting for so far north of a Cetti's warbler ; and as well as the swallow at Saltholme, RSPB staff there spotted dragonflies in the wildlife garden and pondskaters, which should also be hidden away in sheds and tree cracks for the winter.
(19) Two minisatellite loci from a Eurasian songbird, the willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) were isolated, sequenced and used as probes to detect more than 20 related hypervariable loci.
(20) Stonechats, warblers and linnets chatter from the heathland.