garden warbler

British  

noun

1. any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy

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garden warbler

He incorporated bird song, including the tune of the garden warbler, more subtly in his Piece for Piano and String Quartet, which opens the concert on Sunday.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2012

A blind, half-drawn on the open window, broke the warm western rays; upon a tree near by, a garden warbler was piping evensong.

From The Crown of Life by George Gissing

Pettichaps, Petty-Chaps, pet′i-chaps, n. the garden warbler, the willow-warbler, chiff-chaff.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

As much could be said of any other migrant's song—nightingale, tree-pipit, blackcap, garden warbler, swallow, and a dozen more.

From Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson