To hear a nightingale sing had been for years one of my heart’s unfulfilled desires; had I not heard him praised in books, poems, and songs, especially songs ? Every one knows of more nightingale ...

The male nightingale’s song is famously beautiful, but it’s actually just one long boast as he tries to impress potential mates by telling them what a good father he will be. Researchers found that ...

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How does the nightingale’s singing change? Jorma Sorjonen’s old recordings have been brought back to life in Abel Souriau’s doctoral thesis. On the computer screen, birdsong resembles a stock price ...

The nightingale is in dangerous decline and could disappear from Britain if breeding sites are not protected from developers, experts have warned. A 2012 survey by the British Trust for Ornithology ...

My favourite form of natural history note is where wildlife observations are confirmed by the butler. In a 1955 communication to The Irish Naturalists’ Journal, Mary Barry from Ballygoran, Co Kildare, ...

My daughter told the story with a mixture of mirth and distaste. “So the nightingale has returned outside my bedroom window,” she began. I pictured the window in her apartment where I had lived with ...