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

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 book has the line “for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.”

From The Verge • May 30, 2019

The nightingale has twenty-four basic songs, but gains wild variety by varying the internal arrangement of phrases and the length of pauses.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas