reed warblern.
/ˈriːd ˌwɔːblə/, U.S. /ˈrid ˌwɔrblər/ 1. A Eurasian warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus (family Sylviidae), which has plain plumage and frequents reed beds.In quot. 1783, the sedge warbler, A. schoenobaenus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Acrocephalus > species scirpaceus (reed-warbler)
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reed warbler1783
reed wren1783
reed babbler1840
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1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. 418 Reed W[arbler]. Motacilla Schænobanus.
1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Warbler—Reed Mr. Bewick has certainly described and figured the Reed Warbler, which is erroneously called the Passerine Warbler.
1843 Zoologist 1 13 A single reed-warbler was shot at a pond close by the town [sc. Epping] in 1835.
1884 Public Opin. 5 Sept. 299/1 The birds essentially of the mere are the sedge warbler, the reed warbler [etc.].
1974 E. Pollard et al. Hedges (1977) xviii. 213 The bird fauna consisted entirely of ground nesting species such as skylark, lapwing, yellow wagtail, partridges, reed buntings and reed warblers.
2006 Bird Watching Aug. 118/1 Cuckoos may use such trees as songposts—Reed Warblers are among their most frequent ‘hosts’.
2. Any of several other Old World warblers of the genus Acrocephalus which resemble A. scirpaceus in plumage and habitat; esp. (in full great reed warbler) A. arundinaceus of Eurasia, and (Australian) (more fully clamorous reed warbler) A. stentoreus of Asia and Australia.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Acrocephalus > species arundinaceus (great reed-warbler)
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great reed warbler1808
1808 J. W. Lewin Birds New Holland 22 (caption) Reed Warbler... They harbour among the reeds, where they also breed and sing both night and day.
1871–4 Newton Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds I. 365 There seems no reason to doubt their having been specimens of the Great Reed-Warbler or Reed-Thrush, to use its oldest English name.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 317/1 Of very similar habits is the reed-thrush, or great reed warbler, A. arundinaceus, a loud-voiced species, abundant on the Continent but rarely straying to England.
1953 A. Russell Murray Walkabout 135 Hidden among a little bed of green rushes, was a reed-warbler singing its wild melodious song.
1998 Guardian 19 Jan. i. 4/7 Deep in the reedbed we discovered a local speciality, the clamorous reed warbler—just like our own reed warbler—but about twice as big!
2007 Daily Tel. 8 Mar. 23/1 The large-billed reed-warbler, not seen since 1867, recently reappeared at a sewage works in Thailand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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