Many small birds therefore sing on elevated perches high in the vegetation to minimize interference from the ground and foliage. The nightingale sings its beautiful, melodious song from a branch ...

with songs that are “richer, fuller and definitely more melodious.” Whether this is true, the fact is that both birds are ...

A study has investigated the changes in the songs of a population of Thrush Nightingale in Finland over a 33-year period. The ...

But the two birds didn’t sound as good together as the Emperor had hoped. The clockwork nightingale’s song was mechanical and rather harsh compared to the natural beauty of the real bird’s ...

Meet Olivier Messiaen – the bird-mad composer who used birdsong ... it contained music that imitated the songs of a blackbird and a nightingale. Messiaen was released a year later and returned ...

Its sweet song is seldom heard in the general environs of Berkeley Square. But the mystery of why our nightingale population has plummeted far below our neighbours in Europe may have been explained.