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garden warbler

noun

  1. any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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And the garden warbler is by no means found in every garden; probably I did not hear it more than twice.

Beccafico, a European bird (Sylvia hortensis), the garden-warbler.

In size it is somewhat greater than the Garden Warbler, which it resembles in its homely attire.

The garden-warbler, too, is quite a stranger, and I have never recognised it in these parts at all.

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