How To Use Birdsong In A Sentence
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From the garden, no other property is visible and the only sound is that of birdsong.
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The faint whistling of birdsong awoke Marcs as it crept into his cell.
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Many studies have been done exploring the degree to which birdsong is innate or learned behavior.
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Birdsong enters the cottage from front and back - blackbirds, robins, finches.
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Deciding to choose the positive is to celebrate the birdsong, regardless of the weather.
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Their music uses band instrumentation, field recordings such as birdsong and street chatters, filtered electronics, speech and song fragments.
Undefined
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Birdsong Gully, which has been running for the last month, is a set of posts in the bush where people can touch a screen and hear birds such as the little spotted kiwi and tui.
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These poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant as elm leaves, which, if they love, love only the wide blue sky and the air and the idea of elm leaves.
Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst
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Listening to recorded birdsong is only one of many ways on the Internet to tune in to real animal voices.
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Plus why oh why did they introduce unnecessary twittering birdsong on one track?
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It should have been peaceful, a haven of bright birdsong and softly rustling leaves.
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Yet while they sing naturally, songbirds are also trained by their owners, who spend many hours whistling tunes at them, or playing birdsong on tape as examples to follow.
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Alone in a suburb of the same city, my husband away, one afternoon I mistook birdsong for a person whistling inside the house.
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Though the centre is not immune from horn blare and tyre screech, a tranquillity hangs in the air, nurtured by luxuriant greenery and birdsong.
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In the spring wild grasses are a sight to behold and there is wildlife and birdsong to enjoy.
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She wasn't a visitor to the forest, she was part of it - a small bit of herself in every shift of the wind, every leaf, every twitter of birdsong.
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The woods were full of sunlight and birdsong.
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Indeed, seven tracks in, Give Up the Ghost – a mellow and mantric song strung on acoustic guitars and announced by birdsong – gives a hint of what might have been.
Radiohead: The King of Limbs – review
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Since the 1970s the woods have been losing their spring chorus of birdsong.
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He could play for her any musical instrument, knew all music by heart, all birdsong, the purr, growl, snort, or whine of each and every animal.
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Here are elegantly arched courtyards filled with birdsong and the splash of fountains, a vaulted loggia and walled Arab garden, and everywhere tubs of orange trees and coiling branches of jasmine to scent the air.
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We seemed to be alone, apart from the birdsong and the sound of a stream somewhere far below us.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mostly we ambled along the flat trails at family friendly speeds accompanied by birdsong and smell of wild rosemary.
The Sun
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When you arrive, birdsong: waterthrush and golden-cheeked warbler.
Smithsonian
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Suspecting a ruby-crowned kinglet, I confirmed its identity on the app, then hit the birdsong play button.
This App Is for the Birds
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One can listen to the rustle of woodland leaves or birdsong and view the scurrying wild animals or the graceful gliding swans.
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If they want to spend your life online you hardly need real trees and birdsong anyway: you might as well move to town.
Times, Sunday Times
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It should have been peaceful, a haven of bright birdsong and softly rustling leaves.
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Their names are as evocative as the sound of birdsong on a summer's breeze.
Times, Sunday Times
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All you can hear is birdsong and church bells.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a lifetime of deafness she can now hear the beauty of music, birdsong and laughter.
The Sun
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Learning birdsong transforms birdwatching, making it birdlistening, or just birding, if you prefer.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wakes up his wife at six in the morning to listen to the sound of birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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From cover to cover they are filled with sketches, cartoons, poems, limericks, designs, intertwined calligraphed initials, new tunes, birdsong fragments - in fact anything that captured his fertile imagination.
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We would stop on a whim at any temple or hamlet that appealed and absorb the smells and sounds of incense sticks, prayer bells and birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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My brain is just a field of scattering deer, a birdsong is a bridge of wings, there are ants crawling in and out of my ears.
The Memory Palace
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Around them dappled sunlight, birdsong and the whirr of busy wings.
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All you can hear is birdsong and church bells.
Times, Sunday Times
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Self-described "klutz" and "class clown" Melissa Birdsong wanted to be made into a beauty queen.
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I go out to hear the birdsong, to see the bats, and to watch the light changing over the valley.
Times, Sunday Times
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Usually I'd choose to stop at points where I was hearing more birdsong.
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All you can hear is birdsong and church bells.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tone that is said to improve skin mixes a burst of electro-Schubert with woodland noises such as birdsong and streams.
Top stories from Times Online
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Birdsong and rebirth and the sheer undiluted delight of living creatures awaking to face another day.
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All you can hear is birdsong and church bells.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sleep unbroken till birdsong at dawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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All I could hear was birdsong and the mutterings of passing people who largely observed the serene sanctity of the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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We would stop on a whim at any temple or hamlet that appealed and absorb the smells and sounds of incense sticks, prayer bells and birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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The violinist, Ma, plays the opening bars of a Mozart sonata, and the unaccustomed cadences and harmonies of classical western melody are like strange birdsong.
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In a second, the air filled with birdsong, the number of birds doubling and redoubling, blocking out the sun.
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And at least it left me free to enjoy the treatments in peace, with just a gentle soundtrack of jazz, birdsong or classical music.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ornithologists also know something about how birdsong is produced.
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The clear tones of birdsong emerge from internal air sacs that can inflate and deflate, much like a bagpipe's bladder.
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The researchers played recordings of birdsong to lure the wrens into nearly invisible net traps.
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These poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant as elm leaves, which, if they love, love only the wide blue sky and the air and the idea of elm leaves.
Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst
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While struggling to read a short story one afternoon, I get fixated on the word birdsong.
The Memory Palace
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Mostly we ambled along the flat trails at family friendly speeds accompanied by birdsong and smell of wild rosemary.
The Sun
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It was almost impossible for the similarities between birdsongs and music to be a coincidence.
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Till light and birdsong come Walloping up roads with the milk wagon.
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By day it is tranquil and filled with birdsong, but on clear nights the area is transformed.
Times, Sunday Times
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In moments of quiet, you could hear the birdsong in the trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fruit ripened on every tree and birdsong filled the air.
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They are also missing out on the joy of birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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I crouched down on the bricks, and began to pick off the dead and dying leaves as I listened to the ever-present sound of suburban life in summertime: the drone of a distant lawnmower, the squeal of children playing in the pool across the street and tag in the backyard behind my house, and the music of birdsong all around my yard.
In Exile
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Their names are as evocative as the sound of birdsong on a summer's breeze.
Times, Sunday Times
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Others identify more intimate ambassadors: the first dashing yellow daffodil, the rising dawn chorus of birdsong, the earliest appearance of frogspawn in ponds and ditches, the first cut of grass, a pied wagtail over ploughed land and yellow catkins dangling from hazel branches all symbolise spring's arrival for someone.
Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
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Cities where only birdsong is heard will dull us to danger.
Times, Sunday Times
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All we hear is the wind and birdsong, sheep bleating and the sea when the wind's in the right direction.
Times, Sunday Times
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A sudden multiplicity of voices would suggest a court or crowd scene; birdsong, a garden; wind and rain, a heath; waves and seagulls, a seashore.
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Mostly we ambled along the flat trails at family friendly speeds accompanied by birdsong and smell of wild rosemary.
The Sun
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Already the air was warm, underscored by a chatter of birdsong and the muted clop-clop from their horse's hooves.
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Initially he proposed to explain birdsong as a display, enabling a discerning female to select a mate from among a number of males.
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Beginning with pastoral birdsong, then passing through bitonal turbulence, it gradually gathered its energies into a sonorous dancing finale.
Times, Sunday Times
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Occasional cairns led us to a challenging rocky descent into another forest, full of rhododendron blossom, pine scents and birdsong.
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No more beautiful birdsong, no more beautiful birds flying beautifully in the sky.
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Others identify more intimate ambassadors: the first dashing yellow daffodil, the rising dawn chorus of birdsong, the earliest appearance of frogspawn in ponds and ditches, the first cut of grass, a pied wagtail over ploughed land and yellow catkins dangling from hazel branches all symbolise spring's arrival for someone.
Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
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Rinaldo is a youthful work, full of cheerful trumpet and drum outbursts, and many special battle effects, as well as some exquisite trilling sopranino recorder work imitating birdsong.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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It's cool among the tightly packed trees, and we're surrounded by the birdsong of tui and pukeko.
Times, Sunday Times
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By day it is tranquil and filled with birdsong, but on clear nights the area is transformed.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the morning, you'll hear birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you arrive, birdsong: waterthrush and golden-cheeked warbler.
Smithsonian
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Many have laboured, lost their footing and fallen in a bid to dramatise Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, a herculean tale of thwarted love, haunted hearts and man's capacity for bonhomie and inhumanity during the first world war.
Grace Dent: Birdsong
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All we hear is the wind and birdsong, sheep bleating and the sea when the wind's in the right direction.
Times, Sunday Times
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These poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant as elm leaves, which if they love love only the wide blue sky and the air and the idea of elm leaves.
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Hear the birdsong, and the trees rustling in the soft breeze.
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In spring, birds nested in the eaves, the twitterings, cheepings and chorus of birdsong wrecking the soundtrack.
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The violinist plays the opening bars of a Mozart sonata, and the unaccustomed cadences and harmonies of classical western melody are like strange birdsong.
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Birdsong awakens us to the art of nature, birds' variety to nature's skill and imagination.
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They are also missing out on the joy of birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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I heard birdsong for the first time in years.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wakes up his wife at six in the morning to listen to the sound of birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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The purity of birdsong is owed in large part to rapid, controlled changes in the shape of the birds 'upper vocal tracts, according to a new study of Northern Cardinals by scientists at Indiana University Bloomington, Purdue University and Australian National University.
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The preserve, wild with birdsong, was thick with robins, flickers, grackles, blackbirds, catbirds, and doves.
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Then I noticed that the air had suddenly become busy with the sound of birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had a slight catch, a touch of sympathy-arousing plangency, in her voice, and a vulnerable presence that cried out for protection; Birdsong sounds like a typical lounge singer, and comes across as a bit of a bruiser to boot.
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There will be purists who say that rural walks are about terrain and vistas, birdsong and tranquillity.
Times, Sunday Times
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In place of the brattle of riveters' hammers you now hear birdsong.
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Humans are capable of discerning music in birdsong, in traffic, in the hum of a computer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wind in the trees, waves shushing on the shore, birdsong or the rustle of long grass.
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The sound of the wheels would be the loudest thing heard above the birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are also missing out on the joy of birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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So birdsong is a mixture of pre-programmed knowledge of their species song and learning from older singing males.
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Despite snow on the ground, leafless trees and the distinct absence of birdsong one can sense a seasonal change.
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The usual explanation for birdsong is that the birds are singing to attract mates or to announce the limits of their territory.
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Probably the most distinctive birdsong that I have ever heard belongs to the white-throated sparrow.
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He wakes up his wife at six in the morning to listen to the sound of birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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Garden centres are filled with temptation, the days are getting longer and the cheery sound of birdsong is tempting us outside.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we stop we can hear birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sound of birdsong in the brief dusk is a shock, an exotic reminder of lazy summer evenings long past.
Susannah's Journal
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I dearly love those weeks in spring when it's cool enough to sleep with the windows open, and early enough in the year that noisy birdsong is all the alarm clock that I need.
February 2005
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The air seethes with birdsong and the noises of farm animals tethered in back yards.
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He watches a rare firecrest dancing on the banks of the river Fal, witnesses the tumbling flight of evening swifts and reports that experts now believe that birdsong may be - in part at least - pure exuberance, as much spirit as function.
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It is a mesmeric journey, the air rich with the sound of whooping birdsong.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sky above is clear and blue, the grasslands lush and green, but there is no birdsong, no buzz of insects, no sign of anything living but the ones walking with him.
