1. Migratory American songbird with striking black and white breeding plumage in males
   "The male reedbird's bubbling song announced its return to the summer breeding grounds";
   - bobolink, ricebird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus
    
2. Small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa
   "The reedbird's song carried across the marshland";
   - sedge warbler, sedge bird, sedge wren, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus

Derived forms: reedbirds

Type of: American oriole, New World oriole, Old World warbler, oriole, true warbler

Part of: Dolichonyx, genus Dolichonyx

Encyclopedia: Reedbird