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)
Examples of 'sedge warbler' in a sentence
sedge warbler
The stars were song thrush and sedge warbler; both singers of immense inventiveness.
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Every time you hear a sedge warbler, you are listening to a world premiere.
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Sedge warbler song is harsh and rasping, full of clicks and whirrs.
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The sedge warbler has a particularly arresting song.
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Reed warbler song is heavily rhythmic; the sedge warbler is free-form and rambling.
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Not melodic, no; few people will say a sedge warbler is a favourite.
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A sedge warbler broke apologetically into a song and then thought better of it.
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You might expect the reed warbler to sound like the prettier sedge warbler, and it does in some ways.
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The sedge warbler is sandy brown with a dark, streaky cap and bright-white eyestripe, and is said never to sing the same song twice.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The sedge warbler needs a bit of competition from other sedge warblers to bring out his best, but that's no problem here.