nightingale

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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

In 1924, the BBC recorded the cellist Beatrice Harrison playing in her garden accompanied by a nightingale.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2020

Savien sang solid, powerful lines, like branches of a rock-old oak, all the while Aloine was like a nightingale, moving in darting circles around the proud limbs of it.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss