babbler
- noun
- /ˈbæblər/
- Specialized
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timálido
- And he seems to believe that Babblers—long-tailed gray birds that live communally and perform elaborate rituals, such as an intricate "dance" conducted at dawn, in which the birds expose themselves to predators but grow closer as a group—hold the key to much animal and even human behavior.
Examples
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As the sun rose, the babblers started their morning chorus, creating a lively atmosphere in the forest.
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When she has an exhibition on April 6, 1935, she is disappointed by the "babblers" who "felt that they must say stuff:" There was not an artist among them.
Academic text (2004) -
From pied babblers who use a form of Pavlovian conditioning to teach their young to associate a specific call with the arrival of food.
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Sharmas, babblers, and pittas called from the forest floor while monkeys crashed noisily through the bush overhead.
Academic text (2008) -
My colleagues and I have found encouraging numbers of endangered bird species, including the Eurasian bittern, the Iraq babbler, the pygmy cormorant, the sacred ibis, and the whiskered tern.
Academic text (2007) -
The babblers sang loudly from the branches, filling the air with their continuous calls.
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In the park, we saw small flocks of babblers hopping about and chirping excitedly among the trees.
Synonyms
A bird that eats insects and has a loud, repeating song
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Babbler for the bird comes from the simple word babble, which copies the sound 'to make nonstop, chattering noise'. These birds make loud, constant calls, so the name links the bird to that noisy chattering.
