The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

NIGHTINGALE

The Nightingale (also known as the attic bird and the bulbul) is any song bird of the Passerine genus Daulias of the Thrush family. The Common Nightingale (Daulias luscinia) is about 17 centimetres long with plumage of a rich chestnut-brown above with a rufous tinge to the tail and greyish-white below deepening in hue on the breast,. The Common Nightingale arrives in England around the middle of April frequenting groves, small shady copses, woods, quiet gardens and thick hedgerows. They feed on worms, insects and insect-larvae. The nest is made in a hollow in the ground or in a low fork in a thick bush. About five olive-green coloured eggs are laid.
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