nightingale

Through the years, she was often compared to her elder sister - who was revered as the "nightingale" of Bollywood and died in 2022 - but Bhosle built a distinct identity.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

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

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

I imagine his hands opening and the nightingale arising and spreading its wings.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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 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

They’re highly empathetic and encouraging; they trill as prettily as nightingales and they all play, quite dexterously, their own musical instruments.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2014

He told everyone about the songs of canaries, the diet of kestrels, and the extraordinary migration patterns of nightingales.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick