sedge warbler

British  

noun

1. a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)

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Example Sentences

Gould strangely puts it with his rock-birds, 'saxicolinæ,'—in which, however, he also includes the sedge warbler.

From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by Ruskin, John

Suddenly the willows sparkled with diamonds, the grey river became a sheet of silver, the sedge warbler fluted his hymeneal note, and other warblers joined in the chorus.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

Then there was silence again, save that every now and again a sedge warbler, far away by the stream near Shenvarla, sang a faintly audible song.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

The sedge warbler sang in the thick reeds a mocking ventriloquial lay, which reminded me at times of the less pronounced parts of our yellow-breasted chat's song.

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Roosevelt, Theodore

A sedge warbler looked on with his tiny head on one side.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley