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Bird song is a popular subject in poetry. Famous examples inspired by bird song include the 1177 Persian poem "The Conference of the Birds", in which the birds of the world assemble under the wisest bird, the hoopoe, to decide who is to be their king. [161]
4. Listen to Song Recordings in Your Spare Time. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library contains a multimedia archive with more than 800,000 audio recordings of birds. It's free to ...
xeno-canto is a citizen science project and repository in which volunteers record, upload and annotate recordings of bird calls and sounds of orthoptera and bats. [2] Since it began in 2005, it has collected over 575,000 sound recordings from more than 10,000 species worldwide, and has become one of the biggest collections of bird sounds in the world. [1]
An annual International Dawn Chorus Day is held on the first Sunday in May [6] when the public are encouraged to rise early to listen to bird song at organised events. The first ever was held at Moseley Bog in Birmingham, England, in 1987, organized by the Urban Wildlife Trust (now The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country).
The lyrebird is an Australian species best known for its ability to mimic man-made sounds. National Geographic has recorded these remarkable birds mimicking such unnatural noises as a chainsaw and ...
The common English name "chuck-will's-widow " is an onomatopoeia from the bird's song. [9] Alternative names include "chuckwuts-widow" and "chip-fell-out-of-a-oak". [10] This bird is sometimes confused with the better-known whippoorwill (Antrostomus vociferus), [11] because of their similar calls and
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Strisores, a group of birds sometimes called "nightbirds" "Nightbird" (song), a 1983 song by Stevie Nicks "Nightbird", a 1975 song by Kalapana "Nightbird", a song by SZA released on Soundcloud alongside "I Hate U" (2021) Nightbird (Paul Carrack album), released in 1980; Nightbird (Yanni album), released in 1997; Nightbird (Erasure album ...