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sedge warbler

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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

It seems almost incredible that such a small bird as the sedge-warbler can produce such a torrent of sound.

The trout were rising for their evening meal, and a sedge-warbler sang short sweet phrases.

The sedge-warbler, like the migratory warblers generally, comes to us in April and leaves us in September.

No voice of bird greeted me till the sedge-warbler struck up her curious nocturne in a hedge near by.

Down in the reeds the sedge-warbler lisped through the low ground vapors his little melody.

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