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Definition of Sedge warbler
1. Noun. Small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa.
Generic synonyms: Old World Warbler, True Warbler
Definition of Sedge warbler
1. Noun. A small European warbler, ''Acrocephalus schoenobaenus'', that winters in sub-Saharan Africa ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sedge Warbler
Literary usage of Sedge warbler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1866)
"The SEDGE-WARBLER—Its nest and loquacity—The REED-WARBLER—Use of its ... The Sedge
Warbler is well known for its loquacity, and its ceaseless chatter. ..."
2. A History of British Birds by William YARRELL, Howard Saunders, Alfred Newton (1874)
"THE SEDGE-WARBLER, the next example of this aquatic division, ... The Sedge-Warbler,
or Sedge-bird (to use one of its oldest and commonest English names), ..."
3. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"sedge warbler, Arct. Zool. 2. No. 419 White's Hist. Selb. p. 67. 71. 74. ...
IN size and form the Sedge-Warbler bears a great resem- Periodical blance to ..."
4. The Natural History of Ireland by William Thompson, James R. Garrett, George Dickie (1849)
"There can be no doubt, however, that the song of the sedge- warbler has been
taken for that of this bird; for, as they both frequent the same places in the ..."
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