The common nightingale, rufous nightingale or simply nightingale, is a small passerine bird best known for its powerful and beautiful song. It 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.
Common nightingale
Male
Luscinia megarhynchos
Dance of Spring Nightingale depicting movement of a nightingale, a solo Korean court dance
Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs are distinguished by function from calls.
Bird vocalization
Wing feathers of a male club-winged manakin, with the modifications noted by P. L. Sclater in 1860 and discussed by Charles Darwin in 1871. The bird produces sound with its wings.
The Western Australian raven (Corvus coronoides, ssp. perplexus) makes a slow, high-pitched ah-ah-aaaah sound. Australian raven territorial callⓘ
A mated pair of white-naped cranes (Antigone vipio) performing a "unison call", which strengthens the pair bond and provides a territorial warning to other cranes
