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    The common nightingale, rufous nightingale or simply nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), is a small passerine bird which is best known for its powerful...
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    nightingale. "Nightingale" is derived from "night", and the Old English galan, "to sing". The genus name Luscinia is Latin for the common nightingale...
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  • Look up Nightingale or nightingale in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The common nightingale is a songbird found in Eurasia. Nightingale may also refer...
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    Florence Nightingale OM RRC DStJ (/ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern...
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    calliope) Siberian blue robin (Luscinia cyane) Thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) Common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) Himalayan rubythroat (Luscinia...
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    "Ode to a Nightingale" is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles...
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    "The Nightingale" (Danish: Nattergalen) is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Set in ancient China, the story recounts...
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  • Turdus grayi Yes  Croatia Common nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos No  Cuba Cuban trogon Priotelus temnurus Yes  Czech Republic Common kingfisher Alcedo atthis...
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    English naturalist Thomas Forster in 1817. The type species is the common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos). Delimitation of Luscinia versus the genus...
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    Spectrograms of Thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) and Common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) singing help to reliably distinguish these two species...
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    spotted dark brown above. The genus name Luscinia is Latin for the common nightingale. The specific epithet svecica is from Neo-Latin Suecicus meaning "Swedish"...
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    The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care is an academic faculty within King's College London. The faculty is the world's...
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    corridors undetected. The English name "nightingale" refers to the Japanese bush warbler, or uguisu, which is a common songbird in Japan. Uguisu (鶯 or 鴬) refers...
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    specifically to the chats (subfamily Saxicolinae) which also include the common nightingale. In their large continental Eurasian range, robins vary somewhat,...
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    The Owl and the Nightingale (Latin: Altercatio inter filomenam et bubonem) is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate...
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    robin, Erithacus rubecula (V) Indian blue robin, Larvivora brunnea Common nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos (V) White-bellied redstart, Luscinia phaenicuroides...
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  • vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nightingale after the common nightingale: English ship Nightingale (1626) was a vessel captured in 1626 and listed...
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    commonly known as nightingale-thrushes. The extant species are widely distributed across the Americas and are descended from a common ancestor that lived...
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    including common nightingale, turtle doves, peregrine falcons and purple emperor butterflies are now breeding at Knepp and populations of more common species...
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  • moorhen Common murre Common myna Common newtonia Common nighthawk Common nightingale Common ostrich Common paradise kingfisher Common pheasant Common pochard...
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    the most frequently copied including the garden warbler and the common nightingale. The main call is a hard tac-tac, like stones knocking together, and...
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  • April 2024. British Library Sound Archive. British wildlife recordings: Nightingale, accessed 29 May 2013 Maxwell, Catherine. "The Female Sublime from Milton...
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  • subsequently famous BBC outside broadcast recording captures the song of the common nightingale with the sound of Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers flying overhead...
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  • flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis Common nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos Common redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus Common rock thrush, Monticola saxatilis...
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  • iranie à gorge blanche) (A) Thrush nightingale, Luscinia luscinia (French: rossignol progné) (A) Common nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos (French: rossignol...
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    the white-bellied redstart formed part of a clade that included the common nightingale. The species was therefore moved to Luscinia. Juvenile female from...
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  • (ruiseñor azul), Larvivora cyane (A) Thrush nightingale (ruiseñor ruso), Luscinia luscinia (A) Common nightingale (ruiseñor común), Luscinia megarhynchos...
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    White-throated robin, Irania gutturalis (A) Thrush nightingale, Luscinia luscinia Common nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos Bluethroat, Luscinia svecica...
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  • The Hawk and the Nightingale is one of the earliest fables recorded in Greek and there have been many variations on the story since Classical times. The...
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    ignicapilla Common house-martin Delichon urbicum Common kingfisher Alcedo atthis Common nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos Common pochard Aythya ferina Common quail...
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