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Old World warbler

DEFINITIONS OF: Old World warbler

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n small active brownish or greyish Old World birds

Synonyms:
true warbler
Types:
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Silvia atricapilla, blackcap
small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown
Phylloscopus sibilatrix, wood warbler
European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage
Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, reedbird, sedge bird, sedge warbler, sedge wren
small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa
wren warbler
small Asiatic and African bird; constructs nests like those of tailorbirds
Orthotomus sutorius, tailorbird
tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest
Type of:
warbler
a small active songbird
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