Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet NIGHTINGALE

Definition av NIGHTINGALE

1. näktergal, individ av flera arter inom släktet Luscinia i fågelfamiljen flugsnappare (Muscicapidae)
2. sydnäktergal

Exempel på hur man kan använda NIGHTINGALE i en mening

• The thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia), also known as the sprosser, 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.
• The common nightingale, rufous nightingale or simply nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), is a small passerine bird which is best known for its powerful and beautiful song.
• Aëdon features in two different stories, one set in Thebes and one set in Western Asia Minor, both of which contain filicide and explain the origin of the nightingale, a bird in constant mourning.
• Zeus relieved her grief by changing her into a nightingale, whose songs are Aedon's lamentations about her child.
• While the myth has several variations, the general depiction is that Philomela, after being raped and mutilated by her sister's husband, Tereus, obtains her revenge and is transformed into a nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), a bird renowned for its song.
• The estuary is important as a breeding, roosting and wintering site for many waterfowl and other birds, including woodpeckers, nightingale, blackcap, common whitethroat, sedge warbler, reed warbler, European wigeon, common shelduck, northern pintail, common teal, dark-bellied brant goose, grey plover, common redshank, Eurasian curlew, dunlin and black-tailed godwit.

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