sedge warbler

noun

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)

Words nearby sedge warbler

seder, sederunt, sedge, sedge family, sedge fly, sedge warbler, sedge wren, sedged, sedgemoor, sedgwick, sedgy

Example sentences from the Web for sedge warbler

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

Carnival |Compton Mackenzie
If the cuckoo tells her name to all the hills, so does the sedge-warbler to the fluted reeds.

Poachers and Poaching |John Watson
The sedge-warbler in the reedy island heard the splash, and the closing snap of the jaws.

Grim: The Story of a Pike |Svend Fleuron
The sedge-warbler, like the migratory warblers generally, comes to us in April and leaves us in September.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children |W. Houghton

For several years a sedge-warbler has begun to sing again here in July, not having been heard for some weeks previously.

In a Cheshire Garden |Geoffrey Egerton-Warburton

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sedge warbler

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Example sentences from the Web for sedge warbler