ovenbird (oven|bird)

noun

• 1a small, drab tropical American bird belonging to a diverse family, many members of which make domed oven-like nests of mud.

  • Family Furnariidae (the ovenbird family): many genera and numerous species. The ovenbird family comprises the horneros, miners, spinetails, and many others

• 2a migratory brown North American warbler that builds a domed oven-like nest of vegetation on the ground.

  • Seiurus aurocapillus, family Parulidae