Nightingale
One weekend in May 1992 a Fakenham reporter for the Eastern Daily Press phoned to say that a publican at West Raynham had reported a nightingale seen there during the day and asked if this was unusual.
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Anuja
"It's nice to get so much info about Nightingale" ...
Nightingale
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for a migratory Old World bird of the family Turdidae (thrush family), celebrated for its vocal powers.
The Nightingale is a small songbird that belongs to the thrush family. Nightingales have an incredibly rich, loud, complex, and melodious song; they sing mostly at night.
The Nightingale is the national bird of Iran.
In popular traditions, the Nightingale announces the coming of spring, and is a symbol of love.
The Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) is a small passerine bird. It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in forest in Europe and Asia. The distribution is more southerly than the very closely related Thrush. It nests low in dense bushes.
Nightingale
Common Nightingale
Both Sexes
Plain brown but paler underneath.
Nightingales are best known for their beautiful vocal abilities. Male birds, especially, sing for hours on end each night during the breeding season. The females select mates based on the quality of this musical performance.
Nightingales arrive in Britain for the summer in April and stay until August. At that time the males begin to sing their melodious song to attract a mate. They sing both day and night.
Nightingale
Nightingales are slightly larger than robins, with a robust, broad-tailed, rather plain brown appearance. They are skulking and extremely local in their distribution in the UK while in much of souther... More...
Redstart ...
Nightingale-Thrushes
Order Passeriformes Family Turdidae
The Nightingale-thrushes are mostly insectivorous or omnivorous thrushes of The Americas. Their eyes seem large compared with the rest of their small body.
Nightingale Wrens (Microcerculus philomela): Mangoverde
Northern House Wren (Troglodytes aedon): Oiseaux.net
Ochraceous Wrens (Troglodytes ochraceus) ...
Nightingale
A small songbird that sings beautiful, complex songs, often at night. Go to a simple version (just the image).
Nuthatch
A small perching bird that can climb down trees and opens nuts using its bill like a hatchet.
The Nightingale Reed-warbler is found only in the Marianas Islands.
The subspecies endemic to Guam, Acrocephalus luscinia luscinia, was extinct by 1970. The remaining subspecies are all considered endangered.
Is the snake to blame?
Pagan Nightingale Reed-warbler, Acrocephalus luscinia yamashinae (Pagan, Marianas, 1970s)
Another doubtful subspecies of the Nightingale Reed-warbler.
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus frantzii)
3/28/04 - Amistad, Chiriqui
Quite similar to the related Veery, these acted more like robins, hopping around on the lawn. Photo ©2004 Lynn Barber.
Luscinia luscinia - Thrush Nightingale
Luscinia megarhynchos - Common Nightingale (photo)
Luscinia calliope - Siberian Rubythroat
Luscinia svecica - Bluethroat
Tarsiger
Tarsiger cyanurus - Red-flanked Bluetail (photo) ...
With the modesty of superior merit, and almost with the solicitude of the Nightingale, our favourite Finch seeks the darkest thicket of the deepest forest.
maybes it's a Nightingale!" (let me again mention its only 3 o'clock in the morning because, yes, I know nightingales only exist in Europe).
On periodic trips to Nightingale Island they gather both seabirds (presumably Greater Shearwaters) and seabird eggs. They also mine guano produced by the large seabird colony to fertilize their potato fields on Tristan.
Nightingale reed-warbler (Acrocephalus luscinius)
Moorean viviparous tree snail (Partula taeniata)
Serianthes (Serianthes nelsonii)
Philippine cockatoo (Cacatua haematuropygia)
Diospyros (Diospyros benstonei) ...
The cardinal grosbeak, or Virginian nightingale, Cardinalis virginianus, claims notice here, though doubts may be entertained as to the family to which it really belongs.
A mimic, the California Thrasher sings exuberantly year-round; its song has been likened to that of old world nightingales. The species forms pairs in winter. The female usually lays her clutch in February or March.
The Genus Erithacus consists of a group of thrush-like true flycatchers and in addition to the robin, includes species such as the nightingale and the Old World chats.
Its song can be described as having the sounds of 'water' as well as the sounds of a nightingale. The water sounds are a mimicking of water flowing, water dripping into a pool, or a babbling brook.
(other names: Red-billed Leiothrix, Pekin Nightingale, Chinese Nightingale, Japanese Hill Robin)
origin:
Southern Asia ...
It is all too easy to wax lyrical about them for they are indeed the nightingales of New Zealand.
Other thrushes in our garden include the Mistle Thrush, the Nightingale, the Redstart and the Fieldfare. At the moment we have no good pictures available.
1.2 Sparrows (Passeridae) ...
S. Atlantic Ocean islands;
Three populations;
Restricted range;
(1) Tristan da Cunha.
(2) Inaccessible Is.
(3) Nightingale Is. and satillite is. (Middle Is. and Stoltenhoff Is.).
Where I live one of the most familiar sounds of a summer evening or early morning is the cooing of the mourning dove. When all the other birds are asleep (except the robin and nightingale), the dove's haunting call fills the air.
The finest singing is believed to be the hermit thrush, which is a shy forest dweller.In the old world the black bird , the nightingale , the missel thrush , the stonechat , and the wheatear are thrushes .
This bird, also called Virginia nightingales, was once kept as a pet, but since it was sold as caged birds, a ban was passed against keeping it as pet by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.
encompasses the woods in springtime, but it must be heard at fairly close range to appreciate all of the minor notes. In some rural districts, where it is known solely as the bird that sings so sweetly at twilight, it is called the "nightingale." ...
 See also: Robin, Flycatcher, Thrushe, Warbler, European Robin
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