To hear a nightingale sing had been for years one of my heart’s unfulfilled desires; had I not heard him praised in books, poems, and songs, especially songs ? Every one knows of more nightingale ...

As a recent perk for the employee, the CEO purchased tickets for a concert by the California Desert Chorale. The theme was “Mozart, Motown, My Way.” From that beginning one could guess that the ...

The sun has burned off the early morning mist that lay over the farm. The songs of yellowhammers, great tits, blackbirds, chiffchaffs and a song thrush rise from the hedgerows and trees into the ...

My favourite form of natural history note is where wildlife observations are confirmed by the butler. In a 1955 communication to The Irish Naturalists’ Journal, Mary Barry from Ballygoran, Co Kildare, ...

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We walked in the darkness beneath beeches and hornbeams until, suddenly, we heard the sound of birdsong, an ethereal noise, a sound associated with daytime. What bird would sing the song of day two ...