nightingale

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

The nightingale gives its lifeblood to create a perfect red rose.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020

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

Somewhere in the garden a nightingale was singing, and a little breeze touched her hair and stirred the leaves overhead.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

Did the nightingales of Berkeley Square know about this?

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

Muntjac deer have eaten the undergrowth where nightingales once nested in the forests near my home, and now those birds have gone.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2017

Catelyn recognized Bryce Caron's nightingales, the Penrose quills, and Lord Estermont's sea turtle, green on green.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin