What is "reedbird"

Bobolink \Bob"o*link`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American singing bird ( Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.

The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink.
--W. Irving.

n. 1 The bobolink. 2 One of several small Asiatic songbirds of the genus ''Schoenicola'' and ''Eurycercus''.

1. n. migratory American songbird [syn: bobolink, ricebird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus]

2. small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa [syn: sedge warbler, sedge bird, sedge wren, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus]