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

I wonder if even Janet Malcolm might have given a pass to this devoted biographer and his own bow to a nightingale.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

Face masks made of nightingale faeces, used by elite Japanese women for centuries, are one of the stranger beautifying techniques currently resurgent in western salons.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2019

Very soon the moon shone and the nightingale sang over two horses and two human children, all fast asleep.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

Dr Simon Lyster, chairman of the Essex Local Nature Partnership, agrees that the likes of nightingales and turtle doves could come to the site.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025

In their 2020 study, Dr. Roeske and Dr. Tchernikovski compared recordings of thrush nightingales across Europe with examples from musical genres all over the world, including Western classical piano, Persian drumming and Tunisian stambeli.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

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

As the nightingales fell silent, the river larks took up their song.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin