prothonotary warbler
noun
: a large eastern North American warbler (Protonotaria citrea of the family Parulidae) of wooded swamps that has a golden-yellow head and breast and bluish-gray wings
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In 2007, researchers in southern Illinois quantified just how serious the threat of cowbird violence can be on a specific host, the prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea), through a four-year study examining more than a hundred nests.
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Nathan H. Lents, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025
Little yellow prothonotary warblers flitted through the canopy.
—John Jeremiah Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
The prothonotary warbler, for example — a bright yellow songbird named for the yellow robes worn by papal clerks in the Roman Catholic church — enjoy big, old forests surrounded by floodwaters, Gentry said.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
Unusual species included a brown pelican, a Mississippi kite, a banded western wood-pewee, a black-throated gray warbler, a prothonotary warbler, and a summer tanager.
—Maria Elena Little Endara, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
Birds including the prothonotary warbler may adjust well to climate change — with an earlier spring season the birds may be able to produce two broods of chicks.
—Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
While typing the above, a tiny prothonotary warbler landed on a cypress right by the boat.
—Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Apr. 2018
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Nathan H. Lents, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025
Little yellow prothonotary warblers flitted through the canopy.
—John Jeremiah Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
The prothonotary warbler, for example — a bright yellow songbird named for the yellow robes worn by papal clerks in the Roman Catholic church — enjoy big, old forests surrounded by floodwaters, Gentry said.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
Unusual species included a brown pelican, a Mississippi kite, a banded western wood-pewee, a black-throated gray warbler, a prothonotary warbler, and a summer tanager.
—Maria Elena Little Endara, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
Birds including the prothonotary warbler may adjust well to climate change — with an earlier spring season the birds may be able to produce two broods of chicks.
—Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
While typing the above, a tiny prothonotary warbler landed on a cypress right by the boat.
—Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Apr. 2018
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