The locket itself was oval shaped and intricately carved with the image of a nightingale perched on a vine of Moonflower. |
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We trained a thrush nightingale to fly steadily in the wind tunnel, near a reference point to allow visualisation of its wake vortices. |
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My first attempt at trying to see a thrush nightingale by the Narew River was marred by my inability to use my binoculars properly. |
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I heard a nightjar, and our nightingale gave us a virtuoso performance but still, no cuckoo. |
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The bird is a notorious skulker, tending to show itself only momentarily, and is as difficult to see well as a nightingale. |
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The 34-year-old Bengali beauty with the voice of a nightingale, started her career as a music teacher. |
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Invited to hear him, the king declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself. |
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He worried about the future of the golden eagle, the osprey and the nightingale and he condemned the persecution of the bullfinch. |
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The song of the nightingale is seen as a symbol of art that outlasts the individual's mortal life. |
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The country's bird population includes the nightingale, oriole, blackbird, woodpecker, owl, grouse, partridge, finch, tomtit, quail, and lark. |
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Plenty of late migrants are passing through this week, with numerous marsh warblers, spotted flycatchers etc. being seen in Abu Dhabi, as well as a thrush nightingale. |
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Reich had the bird breeder's equivalent of a green thumb, and was known among bird hobbyists for training canaries to sing the song of the nightingale. |
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The nightingale is the one we are most worried about, but these deers are affecting other birds too, including the blackcap, the garden and willow warblers. |
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In an earlier aria about a nightingale, Ms. Matthews combines vocal acrobatics with physical ones, singing agilely while her acting, which includes the active participation of her shapely legs, mimics going for a swim. |
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No other bird I've encountered in poems since — not Keats' nightingale, or Hardy's thrush, or Frost's oven bird, or Clampitt's kingfisher — can compete with him, roosting as he does in an aerie at the top of the world. |
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What a purple patch the area had with a bluethroat found at Leasowe, Wirral, followed by a nightingale on Hilbre. |
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After being treated with ultraviolet rays in order to kill bacteria, nightingale droppings are ground to a powder and mixed with water to form a special paste. |
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Other true thrush groups are called ground thrush and nightingale thrush. |
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On inquiry, I found those scraps, four or five in number, contained his poetic feelings on the song of our nightingale. |
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In summers, the South and Middle Urals are visited by songbirds, such as nightingale and redstart. |
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The open area is then colonised by many animals such as nightingale, European nightjar and fritillary butterflies. |
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The nightingale, the woodpecker, the kingfisher, the raven and the great crested grebe all deserve a shout. |
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Why should that singing horse commonly called the nightingale, or that climbing horse hitherto known as the cat, fall down and worship you because of your horsehood? |
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