Cettin.
/ˈtʃɛti/ Used in the possessive, as Cetti's warbler n. to designate a chestnut-brown southern European warbler, Cettia cetti, resident in Britain since the 1970s and noted for its strikingly loud and abrupt song.
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1875 L. H. L. Irby Ornithol. Straits Gibraltar 93 Wherever there are thick bushes (generally bramble-brakes close to water) Cetti's Warbler is to be heard.
1904 Bull. Brit. Ornithologists' Club 14 84 Mr. M. J. Nicoll exhibited a specimen of Cetti's Warbler..shot by a gardener-boy... This was the first authentic occurrence [subsequently discredited] of Cetti's Warbler in Great Britain.
1972 Brit. Birds 65 496 At least one pair of Cetti's Warblers Cettia cetti bred successfully in southern England.
1983 D. Tomlinson in B. Oddie & T. Tomlinson Big Bird Race 47 At 03.40 a burst of explosive song from a Cetti's Warbler was a welcome sound.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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