nightingale
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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
It was on Hampstead Heath that John Keats pondered the beauty of nature, nightingale song and mortality.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2021
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
Somewhere in the garden a nightingale was singing, and a little breeze touched her hair and stirred the leaves overhead.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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
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
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
As the nightingales fell silent, the river larks took up their song.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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