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Look up: Oven-bird

  1. Oven-Bird
    The oven-bird (Furnarius) is a small, South American insectivorous Passerine bird so called from its nest which is made of mud and straw in any exposed location and completely closed except for a small entrance which leads into a passage half separated by a partition from the main chamber where the ...
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  2. ovenbird
    [n] - American warbler 2. [n] - small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Ovenbird
    Ov'en·bird` noun (Zoology) (a) Any species of the genus Furnarius , allied to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct curious oven-shaped nests. (b) In the United States, Seiurus auro...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/48

  4. ovenbird
    <ornithology> Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct curious oven-shaped nests. ... In the United States, Seiurus aurocapillus; called also golden-crowned thrush. ... In England, sometimes applied to the willow ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. ovenbird
    noun American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground
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  6. Ovenbird
    • (n.) In England, sometimes applied to the willow warbler, and to the long-tailed titmouse. • (n.) In the United States, Seiurus aurocapillus; -- called also golden-crowned thrush. • (n.) Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the W...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. ovenbird
    any of several species of small birds, named for building a domed nest with a side entrance, especially Seiurus aurocapillus, a wood warbler (family ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/41

  8. ovenbird
    ovenbird, common name for a member of the family Furnariidae, primitive passerine birds, which build elaborate, domed nests of clay or dig tunnels in the ground to lay their eggs. Ovenbirds are most common in South America, where most are forest dwellers, although a few species are found on the coas...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08371

  9. Ovenbird
    (family) `Ovenbirds` or `furnariids` are a large family of small suboscine passerine birds found in Mexico, and Central and South America. They form the family `Furnariidae`. The Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillus), which breeds in North America, is a distantly related bird, a wood warbler...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovenbird

  10. Ovenbird
    The `Ovenbird`, `Seiurus aurocapillus` or Seiurus aurocapilla, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family (Parulidae). This migratory bird breeds in eastern North America and moves south in winter.<ref name = sc8994>Stiles & Skutch (1989), Curson et al. (1994)-->...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovenbird



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