nightingales in English

noun
1
a small European thrush with drab brownish plumage, noted for the rich melodious song of the male, heard especially at night in breeding season.
But diet extends to a selection of birds including warblers and even swallows, wheatears and nightingales .

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1. Nightingales have beautiful plumage.

2. Nightingales will not sing in a cage. 

3. Peacocks and nightingales are aesthetic show-offs.

4. Single-brooded, some nightingales start the flight south - to tropical Savannah, or thorny scrub - at the end of July.

5. He discerned turtles, mocking-birds, merles, nightingales, Cushats and stone-curlews inside, and marvelled and was moved to much joy and solace

6. Additionally, they have no vocal cords, but they have a syrinx out of which come melodious songs like those of the nightingales and mockingbirds.

7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem", printed in 1798, disputes the traditional idea that nightingales are connected to the idea of melancholy.

8. 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World: The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the Boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

9. Compared with luxuriant grasses and flying nightingales in South River Land in spring, we feel the warmth after cold, the floweriness after doomsday and the real transience in Early Spring series.