noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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bed
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The reed beds cost £5 million to develop and cover 12 acres of land.
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About ten members toured the reed bed scheme at Billingham and later had discussions about local environmental improvement programmes.
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This reed bed is still maintained by working parties of the Sussex Ornithological Society.
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On the third circuit, I found it, lying dead in a reed bed .
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A cuckoo flew low over the reed bed , to be mobbed at once by two reed warblers.
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He followed the tracks of a car driven apparently at speed to the edge of the reed bed .
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This is an 18 mile long lake fringed with reed beds containing a breathtaking spectrum of birdlife.
bunting
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Females look a bit like our female reed buntings , having a streaked appearance all over.
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A pair of black-headed, white collared reed buntings preened on bracken fronds, their white-edged tails constantly flickering.
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Now it is probably extinct as a breeding bird in Shetland, and its place has been taken by the reed bunting .
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Scrubland birds such as reed bunting and curlew breed here.
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Five reed buntings preened at the pool's edge.
warbler
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A cuckoo flew low over the reed bed, to be mobbed at once by two reed warblers .
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Opposite A pair of reed warblers work flat out to keep the young cuckoo satisfied.
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In Britain the main hosts are the reed warbler , meadow pipit, dunnock and pied wagtail.
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Certainly, reed warblers with an additional egg in the clutch often fail to hatch all their own eggs.
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They, too, have learnt what a great reed warbler egg looks like.
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The stuffed cuckoo is bombarded by a frenzied reed warbler and a belligerent pair of nightingales.
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A tiny reed warbler , faced with a cuckoo, feeds a chick much larger than herself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Reeds grew all along the river bank.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A former pool had silted up and was turning into a miniature reed marsh.
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About ten members toured the reed bed scheme at Billingham and later had discussions about local environmental improvement programmes.
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On the third circuit, I found it, lying dead in a reed bed.
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Other plants sown with the reeds absorb heavy metals and harmful bacteria.
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The little island seemed to float before her in the purply twilight, partly masked by a stand of reeds and cattails.
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This reed bed is still maintained by working parties of the Sussex Ornithological Society.
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When Coltrane breathed into his instrument his entire life seemed to pass through the reed and mouthpiece into the resounding metal.