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
In 1924, the BBC recorded the cellist Beatrice Harrison playing in her garden accompanied by a nightingale.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2020
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
The pale, dark-eyed alethiometrist, with his nightingale dæmon on his shoulder, came in and bowed slightly.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
This will be beneficial for a host of wildlife and rare species, including nightingales.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
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
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
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