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

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

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

From The Verge • May 30, 2019

The Roman writers who told the story somehow got the sisters confused and said that the tongueless Philomela was the nightingale, which was obviously absurd.

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