Bachman's warbler

noun

Vermivora bachmanii, a small passerine migratory bird of America. It was declared extinct in 2021.

Meanings

nounBachman's warbler (plural Bachman's warblers)

plural Bachman's warblers

  1. Vermivora bachmanii, a small passerine migratory bird of America. It was declared extinct in 2021.
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    Perhaps nothing speaks more vividly for the strangeness of the times than the fate of the lovely little Bachman's warbler. A native of the southern United States, the warbler was famous for its unusually lovely song, but its population numbers, never robust, gradually dwindled until by the 1930s the warbler vanished altogether and went unseen for many years.

    2005, Bill Bryson, chapter 30, in A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition, page 593

Origin

Discovered in 1832 by the Reverend John Bachman.

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