Sentences with phrase «of nightingale»

There is a parable by Izmailov about the cuckoo who tells her neighbours in the province about the wonderful song of the nightingale she heard in a far - away country.

From British birds to tropical insects and mammals from the Australian outback, the new Derby nature collection encourages visitors to interpret and engage with the items on show, be it through a soundscape of nightingale sounds, magnifiers to scrutinise fossils, birds» eggs, shells and beetles up close, or a touch screen asking how connected to nature you feel.

Whether you're looking for videos of cats riding Roombas, the translated poetry of Goethe or the song of a nightingale, the Internet, thanks to the incredible resources of the World Wide Web, will dish up whatever you're after.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Not exact matches

The nightingale sings even in the darkness of the night.

Luckily for him one of his tutors was the poet Richard Eberhart, who taught Robert the secret known to poets and to nightingales: that pain can be managed when it finds a perfect expression.

Very old are we men; Our dreams are tales Told in dim Eden By Eve's nightingales; We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

... It is like making a nightingale leave her own sweet song and imitate the monotonous voice of a cuckoo.»

In other words, it wants the developer to find another bit of land where it can create woodland for the nightingales to move to.

Even if you are trying to replace like with like, it is far from clear if, for instance, the nightingales of Lodge Hill will, upon returning from overwintering in Africa, find their way to any new habitat created for them, still less whether they will find it to their liking.

The Environment Bank's report on prospects for offsetting the loss of the Lodge Hill nightingale site does mention that, in keeping with the rules, «avoidance, minimisation and on - site rehabilitation measures» should be explored.

But then it admits that development will cause «the loss of all suitable nightingale habitat».

But our study shows that, in nightingales, it is a mix of specific song features that seem to be more important in determining their paternal efforts.

The song of the male nightingale tells females how good a father he will be, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Meanwhile, behavioral biologist Henrik Brumm of the University of St. Andrews found that male nightingales have cranked up their mating calls as much as 14 decibels to remain audible over urban sounds.

Out of the 243 comparisons Araya - Salas made between nightingale wrens» songs and musical scales, only six matched harmonic intervals.

To give birds a fair shot, he tested a species known for the beauty of its song: the nightingale wren, which resides in forests between northern Costa Rica and southern Mexico.

The study, published in this month's issue of Animal Behavior, shows that the resemblance between a nightingale wren's song and music is nothing more than a coincidence.

So he gambles all he's built on the «Swedish nightingale», opera singer Jenny Lind (Ferguson), who hypnotises him and threatens his marriage, and a high - class tour of the country's opera houses.

A powerpoint of uniforms and equipment used in nursing today; I made it as a starter for florence nightingale topic.

But every now and then I could not resist the lure of the mountain, and at the end of the day I slipped away, through the bamboo grove with its tall, smooth trunks and green slanting light, up the rocky path past the shrine of the mountain god, where the villagers left offerings of millet and oranges, into the forest of birch and cedar, where the cuckoo and the nightingale called enticingly, where I watched foxes and deer and heard the melancholy cry of kites overhead.

Explore the castle's Ninomaru Palace, known for its beautiful wall paintings and its «nightingale» floors, designed to squeak when stepped upon to warn of intruders.

Catch glimpses of woodpeckers, nightingales and other birds among the lush tropical vegetation.

Managed by the Belize Audubon Society, the park is home to over 200 species of native Belizean birds including the unusual exotic species of slaty antwren, piratic flycatcher, red - legged honeycreeper, tody motmot, and northern nightingale wren.

Born in 1924 in the ancient Persian city of Qazvin, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian spent her childhood in a grand old house replete with stained glass, wall paintings and nightingales.

The question is whether she utilized those options of cuckoo - language that are nearest to the nightingale's song.

The signature Libratone nightingale is perched on the sides of these headphones, giving them a unique and stylish look.