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
For decades, the "nightingale of Bollywood" was the country's most in-demand singer, with every top actress wanting her to sing their songs.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2022
In 1924, the BBC recorded the cellist Beatrice Harrison playing in her garden accompanied by a nightingale.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2020
The book has the line “for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.”
From The Verge ● May 30, 2019
And out of the darkest recess among the trees there came a sound Shasta had never heard before—a nightingale.
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
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
Do nightingales shoot magic out of their cloacas?
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2019
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
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