Cape May warbler

noun

1. a North American wood warbler, Dendroica tigrina, olive-green striped with black on the wings and back and yellow striped with black on the breast.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cape May warbler¹

1805–15; after Cape May, New Jersey

Example Sentences

The Cape May warbler is thought to have been blown off course by a storm on its migration south to the Caribbean from its natural habitat in North America.

From BBC

In Minnesota, Dudley Edmondson, a photographer and author of “The Black & Brown Faces in America’s Wild Places,” cited the Cape May warbler — with its decurved bill and striped breast — as that special bird of spring.

From New York Times

It is a Canada warbler, not a Cape May warbler.

From New York Times

There is a tradition among newspaper men in Washington that a Cape May warbler once broke up a Cabinet meeting; maybe this was that identical bird.

From Project Gutenberg

How can any New Englander imagine that he has exhausted the possibilities of existence so long as he has never seen the Lincoln finch and the Cape May warbler?

From Project Gutenberg