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Title: Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dixon, Charles, 1858-1926
Subjects: Songbirds -- England Birds -- England
Publisher: London, Lawrence and Bullen
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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to be a passing migrantchiefly, although it may possibly breed sparingly inAlgeria, the south of France, Italy and Greece. Itcertainly breeds in Palestine, and is said to do so inCorfu and Crete. Absent apparently from Persia, itvisits North-western Turkestan, although its easternlimits in Asia are not yet determined. The winterrange of this species extends from Asia Minor tosome unknown area in the Ethiopian portion of theInter-Tropical Realm. The Sedge Warbler is a somewhat late migrantto our area, usually not appearing, even in southernlocalities, before the last ten days of April, and in thenorthern and more remote w-esttrn ones not untilthe beginning of May. Although this bird belongsto the reed or marsh Warbler group, its haunts areby no means confined to swampy localities. Itsfavourite resorts, so far as may be estimated by thenumber of individuals, are osier- and reed-beds wherethe ground is more swampy than covered with water,tangled thickets near pools and marshy spinnevs by
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Sedge Warbler THE SEDGE WARBLER 6^ the river-side. It, may, however, often be observedin dense hedges far from water, and weed- and briar-choked ditches. We cannot call the Sedge Warblera particularly shy or retiring species. If alarmed itis skulking enough, but if not disturbed it will fear-lessly go its way in full view of the observer, andmay very frequently be seen clinging to the topmostpoint of a reed or bush, or flying from one side of astream to the other with no attempt at concealment.Sedge Warblers are very quarrelsome birds, especi-ally just after their arrival, and before each pair hascomfortably settled down into a chosen spot for thesummer. Even then the birds resent intrusion, andno matter how abundant they may be, each pair areattached to a certain beat from which they are everready to drive off trespassers. Before the vegetationis full grown the birds may be watched hurryingabout more like mice than birds, and the celerity oftheir movements is very noteworthy. The Sed

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