Sentence examples for willow warbler from inspiring English sources
noun
A common species of Eurasiafrican leaf warbler, .
When not singing, the common chiffchaff can be difficult to distinguish from other leaf warblers with greenish upperparts and whitish underparts, particularly the willow warbler.
So why, if the willow warbler is so common, is it not better known?
A nine-centimetre-long brown songbird with no distinctive features or markings, the plain leaf warbler looks almost exactly like the willow warbler, except the willow warbler is eleven centimetres long.
In the ash woodland, listen out for the garden warbler, willow warbler, bullfinch, nuthatch, and great spotted woodpecker.
Actually it's the willow warbler – a bird not all that many people have heard of, let alone heard.
Channeling anthropomorphic wildlife shows, Liz Bonnin writes life stories for her feathered co-stars in Dorset: "This willow-warbler has got romance on her mind".
Once-common native species such as the willow flycatcher, gray catbird, warbling vireo, American redstart, black tern, and yellow-billed cuckoo are no longer found along the river.
The State of the UK's Birds report, from the RSPB, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and several UK government nature bodies, shows that of the UK's 107 most widespread and common breeding birds, 16 species have declined by more than a third since 1995, including the willow tit, starling, cuckoo, lapwing and wood warbler.
A tolerance of willow, alder and birch allows it to breed farther north and at higher altitudes than any other European Sylvia warbler.
