Nightingale

A plain brown bird with a pale eyering and rusty-brown tail, best known for its rich, powerful song which can keep people awake when given at night. In areas of overlap, compare with extremely similar Thrush Nightingale; note present species’ unmarked pale underparts, often with a variable buffy wash, as well as its warmer-toned back and brighter rufous tail. Song is extremely variable, and can include whistles, trills, rattles, and warbled phrases; elements often repeated. Calls include a…

Nightingale, Paxton Pits NR, 26th April 2010 © Garth Peacock A total of 11 singing males seen or heard today just from the car park to Kingfisher hide.

I can't descibe my luck. During previous spring seasons I could only hear but not see Nightingales. It is by far the most ultimate song bird of all Western European birds! I discovered 3 Nightingales singing thier opera just next to a busy path into the dunes. They are not shy and I captured this one full frame! This is absolutely nature at it's best!

A Legendary Bird (Thorn Birds) There's a story... an old Celtic legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to out-sing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for…

Inscription: Printed text along lower edge of card: Nightingale.Printed text on verso of card: This card is one of a/ set of FIFTY "ZOO"/ cards, as follows:[list of birds included in set]/ One of the above cards is wrap-/ped with every ZOO caramel

The nightingale bird is described as being a small bird of the thrush family, plain in appearance, shy in habits, but having a song of the sweetest quality.

It’s 200 years since Keats penned ‘Ode to a Nightningale’, but this otherwise drab bird’s rich, sorrowful song is worth listening out for says John Lewis-Stempel.

Photograph of Robin (Erithacus rubecula) about to land. Rights managed white background image. Warren Photographic WP00458

A nightingale, seeing the sorrow of a student who has no red rose to give to his love, stains a white rose crimson with her own blood. The nightingale dies, and the young man plucks the rose to give to his lady love. She spurns the gift, which took such a tremendous sacrifice, because she prefers to wear jewels instead. The blood-red rose finishes its journey lying in the gutter.