Ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla


Ovenbird
The Ovenbird is (like the waterthrushes) unusual among warblers in its thrush-like brown color and striped breast, and in foraging almost entirely on the ground; it is large for a warbler, but still smaller than any of the thrushes. Males are most often first noticed by their familiar song, a loud repeated "teacher! teacher!" Robert Frost's "The Ovenbird" celebrates this bird's tutelary persistence in singing his forceful but prosaic song into late summer, long past the fall of the hopeful blossoms of spring and the lapse into silence of the other songbirds.


Ovenbird


Ovenbird