The only non-breeding-season record of the globally threatened blackthroat (Luscinia obscura), which breeds in west and central China, was from lowland forest or secondary growth in this region. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests] Reference
These species include: Moschus moschiferus, Apodemus speciosus, Luscinia cyane, L. sibilans, Carpodacus roseus, Apus pacificus, Streptopelia orientalis, Tetrao parvirostris, Anas formosa and Corvus corone. From Wordnik.com. [East Siberian taiga] Reference
Denmark, but penetrates (strangely enough) further into South Sweden than our own Luscinia: ranging meanwhile over all Central Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference
Other species include corncrake Crex crex, spotted crake Porzana porzana, red-breasted flycatcher Ficedula parva, nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos, Bohemian waxwing, marsh warbler Achrocephalus palustris and Blyth’s reed warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum. From Wordnik.com. [Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden] Reference
Among birds, common are lark (Galerida cristata), stone patridge (Alectoris chucar), doves (Columba livia, Streptopelia turtur, S. orientalis), hawks (Accipiter nisus, A. badius), buzzard (Buteo rufinus), kite (Milvus korshun), falcons (Falco tinnunculus), pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), titmice (Parus), flycatchers (Muscicapa), nightingale (Luscinia megarhyncha), finches (Carduelis), buntings (Emberiza), warblers (Sylvia), and shrikes (Lanius). From Wordnik.com. [Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe] Reference
Other characteristic bird species include chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), Himаlayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis), northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), wagtail (Motacilla), golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus), titmice (Parus, Remiz), sparrows (Passer), shrikes (Lanius), spotted flycatchers (Muscicapa), eastern turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis), rock pigeon (Columba livia), wood pigeon (Columba palumbus), and thrush nightingales (Luscinia Luscinia). From Wordnik.com. [Gissaro-Alai open woodlands] Reference
But as for our own Luscinia, who winters not in Egypt and Arabia, but in Morocco and Algeria, the only note of his which can be mistaken for sorrow, is rather one of too great joy; that cry, which is his highest feat of art; which he cannot utter when he first comes to our shores, but practises carefully, slowly, gradually, till he has it perfect by the beginning of June; that cry, long, repeated, loudening and sharpening in the intensity of rising passion, till it stops suddenly, exhausted at the point where pleasure, from very keenness, turns to pain; and. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference
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