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Definition of Sedge bird

1. Noun. Small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sedge Bird

Literary usage of Sedge bird

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Architecture of Birds by James Rennie (1833)
"The nest of the sedge bird is .a much more solid and substantial structure, and an inch less both in depth and diameter, — one of the smallest nests indeed ..."

2. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1853)
"sedge bird. SEDGE WREN. REED FAUVETTE. Sylvia salicaria, LATHAM. ... THE Sedge Bird is generally spread over Europe, its range extending even to the ..."

3. In the Land of the Beautiful Trout by Arthur Tysilio Johnson (1907)
"OR, THE SONG OF THE SEDGE-BIRD IT the close of day, when the summer sun was setting behind the low and distant hills, an old man might often have been seen ..."

4. The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward (1882)
"SEDGE-BIRD. Fixed in a white-thorn bush, its summer guest, So low, e'en grass o'er-topped its tallest twig, A sedge-bird built its little benty nest, ..."

5. The Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations, English and Latin: With an Appendix edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward (1882)
"SEDGE-BIRD. Fixed in a white-thorn bush, its summer So low, e'en grass o'er-topped its tallest twig, A sedge-bird built its little benty nest, ..."

6. Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds by George Montagu, James Rennie (1831)
"The eggs are four or five in number, rather larger than those of the sedge bird, of a greenish white, blotched all over with dusky brown. ..."

7. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1850)
"It is urged that as the sedge-bird frequents the solitary banks of weedy streams ... While the similarity of the notes of the sedge-bird with those of other ..."

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