sedge warbler

noun

variants or less commonly sedge bird or sedge wren

: a small warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) that breeds among reeds and sedges in Europe and Asia and winters in Africa, is rusty brownish above with dark centers to the feathers and buffy white below, and has a loud sweet song

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