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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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reed
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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.
willow
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Robins, willow warblers , blackbirds, song thrushes, blue ties, great ties teased with their nearness - and invisibility.
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Close by, a willow warbler flicked jauntily from one overhanging twig to the next.
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The willow warbler is even prepared to assault a stuffed cuckoo head.
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More bird song: willow warbler , wren, robin - all in the first few minutes.
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We started to climb, accompanied by intermittent snatches of bird song: wood warbler , garden warbler and willow warbler.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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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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All of these were rare pioneers this year, and all sang only sporadically, except for the pine warbler .
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As a result, a cuckoo who was himself brought up by warblers may father an egg found in a redstart nest.
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Birds heard: hermit thrush, Nashville and chestnut-sided warblers, red-eyed vireo, raven.
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Female cuckoos bear more allegiance to a particular host, be it redstart or warbler , than do their males.
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Opposite A pair of reed warblers work flat out to keep the young cuckoo satisfied.
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There were dark green spruce sentinels, ideal for black-throated green and myrtle warblers.
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This advocacy of the golden-cheeked warbler endangers the economic status of many people.