reed-warbler
[reed n.1]
a. A common British sylvioid bird, Acrocephalus streperus, frequenting reed-beds. b. A related species, A. arundinaceus (also called reed-thrush and great reed-warbler), occasionally seen in Britain.
| 1802 Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1831) 418 In Wiltshire and Somersetshire, where the sedge warbler is found in abundance.., not a single Reed Warbler is to be found. 1843 H. Doubleday in Zoologist I. 13 A single reed-warbler was shot at a pond close by the town [Epping] in 1835. 1884 Public Opin. 5 Sept. 299/1 The birds essentially of the mere are the sedge warbler, the reed warbler [etc.]. |