It is only by a happy accident that this nest of the ovenbird is discovered.
It is laughable, almost pathetic, to see a tiny ovenbird or redstart feeding a strapping young cowbird which is several times as large as herself.
Major Bendire says that he once found the nest of an ovenbird which contained seven cowbird's eggs and only one of the little owner's.
A marvelous choral is the rare ecstasy song of the ovenbird (see Vol.
The ovenbird is also called the golden-crowned thrush, for no conceivable reason unless it is that the bird is not a thrush, but classed with the warblers.
While watching from a rocky height a pair of hermit thrushes that were housekeeping in a hemlock beneath, an ovenbird flew from a maple bough to a high clump of ferns near by.
Is he named Ovenbird because he has a door in one side of his nest like an oven?
So it happened that, while Mrs. Ovenbird was sleeping happily with her four eggs safe and warm under her breast, two people were coming from different ways to rob her.
She trotted happily away, while Mrs. Ovenbird settled herself upon her eggs again and thought what a pleasant call she had had and what an excellent and intelligent person Mrs. Ground Hog was!
They drank some milk and went to sleep like good little Ground Hogs, but even after he was half asleep the big brother laughed out loud at the thought of the Ovenbird babies being scared at night.
Mrs. Ovenbird felt her nest roof crush down upon her for a minute as two people rolled and growled outside.
Mrs. Ovenbird was sure that she heard a leaf rustle outside, and it made her anxious until she remembered that a dead twig might have dropped from the beech-tree overhead and hit the dry leaves below.
Not even the ovenbird contrives that a peep at her eggs shall be so difficult for us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ovenbird" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
