nightingale

He laid out the "hard problem" of working out how and why any of the complex operations of brains give rise to conscious experience, such as our emotional response when we hear a nightingale sing.

From BBC ● May 25, 2025

Just as the familiar tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gradually builds speed “accelerando,” as the compositional notation is known, some birdsong does too, like that of the nightingale.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

To clarify, “no fun” translates as “bird poo”, while “uguisu” is the species name of the Japanese bush warbler, somewhat different from a nightingale.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2019

That was mine because I liked that idea that, for once, a nightingale actually did sing in Berkeley Square.

From The Verge ● May 30, 2019

Strange bird sounds answer me: ca-caw of crows, whoop of owls, knocking woodpeckers, and a whistling nightingale.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

"He knew the hardship of farmers in the 1920s and 30s but he knew it was also incredibly beautiful; there was an amazing wild profusion of yellowhammers, nightingales, linnets, that are a rare sight today."

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023

Yet prior to the new study, only humans and thrush nightingales have been observed singing songs that have a rhythmical structure—that is, containing features such as a “categorical rhythm.”

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2021

Knepp boasts the largest population in Britain of the Purple Emperor butterfly; nightingales, after years of decline, are nesting there in rising numbers.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2019

As the sun goes down on Białowieża, a night chorus of frogs, nightingales and warblers pipes up under its clear and constellated skies.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2016

He told everyone about the songs of canaries, the diet of kestrels, and the extraordinary migration patterns of nightingales.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick