nightingale

     

The Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), also known as Rufous an Common Nightingale, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called chats.

Trivia about nightingale

  • In the Grimm tale "Jorinda and Joringel", Jorinda is turned into one of these birds known for singing in the evening
  • Thrush to judgment and name this type of bird seen here
  • A songbird, or the last name of nursing pioneer Florence
  • Keats' ode to this bird begins, "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense"
  • In 1713 Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea, wrote a poem to this bird, 106 years before John Keats' ode
  • Gelsey Kirkland starred in the 1972 version of "The Song of" this nocturnal bird
  • This Hans Christian Andersen bird "had come to sing of comfort & hope, as he sang, the phantoms grew pale"
  • Keats' "Ode to ___":"Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!"
  • In a 1924 work Respighi called for an actual recording of a bird, this famed singer
  • "Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" Keats wrote in the "Ode to" this feathered friend
  • Keats called its song "thy plaintive anthem"
  • Old World member of the thrush family, celebrated for its vocal powers
  • At Santa Fe's Ten Thousand Waves Spa, have a geisha-style facial, featuring the droppings of this "nocturnal" bird
  • Keats' ode to this bird ends, "Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: --do I wake or sleep?"
  • Keats' "Ode to" this includes the line, "Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!"
  • In a famous ode Keats called this bird "light-winged Dryad of the trees"