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Sedge Warbler
Photo: Charles J. Sharp / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Birds / Warblers

Sedge Warbler

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
Uncommon Summer visitor Wetland
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Recording: Patrik Åberg / xeno-canto

Sounds like

A fast, excitable, chattering jumble with sudden whistles and buzzes, never settling into a steady rhythm.

Remember it

A reed warbler on too much coffee.

When and where

Listening for the sedge warbler

Heard
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Apr to Jul
Time of day
Dawn, Day and Night
Where
Wetland
In Britain
Summer visitor
Family
Warblers

Side by side

Often confused with

Play them one after the other and listen for the difference.

Sedge Warbler

Sedge Warbler

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
JFMAMJJASOND

A reed warbler on too much coffee.

Reed Warbler

Reed Warbler

Acrocephalus scirpaceus
JFMAMJJASOND

Even and metronomic: each little phrase repeated two or three times.

Whitethroat

Whitethroat

Curruca communis
JFMAMJJASOND

A quick, irritable scribble of sound.

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Willow Tit

Willow Tit

Poecile montanus
JFMAMJJASOND

A nasal, buzzing 'eez-eez-eez' call.