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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sedge warbler

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 John Ruskin

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 Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

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 Horace Annesley Vachell

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

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell

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 Theodore Roosevelt

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