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

The nightingale gives its lifeblood to create a perfect red rose.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020

Animals have always come and gone, medieval wolves, later Keats’ nightingale, later still a rare wallaby, spotted bounding through the trees in spring 2019.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020

The music rises into the air with the wings of a nightingale and carries us forward, just when it seems we cannot take another step.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

This will be beneficial for a host of wildlife and rare species, including nightingales.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025

Grasshoppers, sand lizards, nightingales, and skylarks that are declining or threatened elsewhere have been found thriving in the city’s green spaces.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 2, 2022

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

He transformed a hotel ballroom into an enchanted forest, carpeting the floor in sod, hanging fresh grapes from a trellis and borrowing cages of nightingales from the Central Park Zoo for the occasion.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2017

His limbs they gathered and placed in a tomb at the foot of Mount Olympus, and there to this day the nightingales sing more sweetly than anywhere else.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton