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Definition of Ovenbirds
1. ovenbird [n] - See also: ovenbird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ovenbirds
Literary usage of Ovenbirds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts edited by C. John Ralph, John R. Sauer, Sam Droege (1998)
"ovenbirds did not occur in lowland conifer types. Calculations were done on values
from stands (eg, sum of three subsamples/stand) Results Allocation of ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1890)
"I had often heard the "teacher" note of a pair of ovenbirds in a wood where I
... The ovenbirds seemed hardly to realize their escape, being too deeply ..."
3. Kindergarten Review (1902)
"... and how the ovenbirds spent their nights in sleeping and their days in work
and play. "I wonder if the little ovenbirds will be scared when they have to ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"While watching the noisy antics of a pair of ovenbirds on the road to Negro
Mountain, a Junco dropped out of her nest in an invisible pocket in the low bank ..."
5. The Wilson Bulletin by Wilson Ornithological Club, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Wilson Ornithological Society (1904)
"Many times as we passed through the woodland paths (one cannot go outside of them
owing to the dense growth of green or cat briers), ovenbirds, ..."
6. Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright (1917)
"... On the ground in woods, and in swamp tussocks, or in a .ground hollow like
the ovenbirds, and composed chiefly of leaves. ..."
7. Darwinism and Human Life: The South African Lectures for 1909 by John Arthur Thomson (1911)
"They became destructive to birds as well as mice, and although the naturalist
shot many to try to reduce the havoc they were making among the ovenbirds, ..."
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