BTO Bird ID - Nightingale and Other Night Singers

Contrary to popular opinion, Nightingale is not the only bird that sings at night. In fact, due to it's recent decline, you are more likely to hear other birds singing after dark. This BTO Bird ID video illustrates the difference in song between the four most common 'Night Singers' - Robin, Blackbird, Song Thrush and of course, Nightingale.

[ghosttrees]

If you’re like me, you clicked this because you want to know what bird is singing at 12am outside your window

[Scousebazzer]

Beautiful, nothing better than hearing birds when you wake early

[lynneperkins]

When I was growing up in northern California, there was a near-permanent resident just outside my window. All summer long, the Mockingbird sang sweetly to my sister and me through our open window. He lived in the great creek below us, but preferred to sing from the hights of the peach tree by our window up the cliff. Year after year, from the time that the naked lady lilies bloomed against our bedroom wall until mid-summer's fogs drove him away, he sang to us. It was magical, a magical way to grow up. To think of his passing into history breaks my heart, and so I can well imagine Britain's pain at losing her little nightingale.

[BeltaineRose]

It's the early hours of the morning 2 a.m jan 3rd West Cork Ireland I'm sitting at my table listening to what I believe is a robin singing it's little heart out, very unusual ..1st time in my 17yrs living here I've heard a bird singing at this late hour so I googled it and was led to this vid.x

[naomicaldwell]

Living in TN and there are currently 2 birds outside singing their little hearts out. It started around 11:30pm. It's currently 4:25am and these birds show no signs of stopping. It was tolerable for an hour or so, but almost 5 hours later, I'm over it. In fact, I need earplugs. Since I can't sleep, I figured I'd look into the culprits who are keeping me awake. Alas, here I am!

[liliaaaaaaaa]

I've started doing my best to learn bird song and bird identification this new year with the lockdown in the UK and have started going for walks around my neighbourhood area feeding the birds leaving small collections of bird food under various trees. I've found listening to their song and doing what I can to replicate phrases of what I'm hearing is helpful to try and memorise the calls and put the visual identification of the birds when I see them together with hearing them. As I've been habitually walking around leaving food for them over the winter months they've got used to me and less fearful and sometimes they've started literally flying up to my eye level in the tree branches to look me in the eye as if to say hi and get to know my face and recognise me. Sometimes this has involved a long sing songing back and forth with me whistling to repeat phrases back to them to reassure them if I'm entering their territory. Robins and blackbirds as well as crows and magpies and various tits, and today I had a musical exchange with an unknown bird when I actually saw it in the tree, I saw it was a nightingale. My first sighting of one ever, quite distinctive by the long beak, size and colouring.

[lindasaunders]

How can you have people disliking this it's excellent beautifully done. Thank you for making this. I love it

[jiibbss_wrestling]

I’m here cuz the past couple weeks a bird been keeping me up all night

[JamesWaton]

I heard a nightingale recently in a heavily wooded area during the day definitely practicing his song. i could tell it was a nightingale by that unique ticking noise and drawn out notes it does. they are truly lovely birds to hear. if you're on a walk and you hear one the song is so crystal clear and loud for a bird of it's size it just stops you.

[notpopularc]

It’s 1 am in Southern California and a bird is singing like he’s On The voice 😂 Birdy I want to sleep

[motherintoronto]

I lived in Kent for eight years as a kid (4-12yo). Got hearing aids when I was 4 and started hearing birds singing outside my bedroom. Hadn't heard birds at night before. I remember listening and each night started trying to commit those sounds to memory in case someday I couldn't hear them anymore. Didn't occur to me I was hearing a nightingale because those are rare. I mostly recognize the Robin but I'm absolutely certain I've heard that nightingale as well! I don't recognize the blackbird song at all. And I'm not sure about the thrush.

Still, it's really nice to find out what birds I was listening to. It was a big moment in my childhood.

[hanahorack]

Lovely video. Confirmed that the amazing nightly singing I'm hearing is a nightingale ❤ from Germany

[imatop]

It looks like there are a lot of birds that sing through the night in Brittan. I'm in Texas trying to identify the birds singing at night here.

[becksmassie]

I live in Kent, and for the first time ever I've been listening to a nightingale every night this week. I have recorded it too. It is exactly the same as the nightingale song in your clip.

[lisabianconi]

All of these beasts have moved into a tree right outside our window. They need to form a band and go on tour.

[apieeaterohyea]

Here in the states, Western Pennsylvania, I have a Mocking Bird driving me crazy with his repertoire that he repeats all night long.

[kayangel]

I love you illustration of birds and their communication that they have. Do you have any more?

[raoufcne]

Thanx to you that i discovered the name of the bird tweeting all the night ; The Nightingale, its the same tweeting you shared in this vedeo . I heard it singing all the night just in the beggining of spring of this year. Algeria, north africa.

[lewishoward]

02:10 in the morning here. Half hour ago I was sat in our local country park in suffolk, east england, where I had a 3 minute back and forth between me and a nightingale (obviously couldn't see it was pitch black). Just so you can picture the scene, after you walk up this hill, you cut through some bushes, up further and across to the right through more bushes, straight along the path, to a bench. in front of you is a bushline of a small amount of a tree line going across sideways in front of you with a nice view of the area and park. while I was on the bench, the nightingale was probably around 15 feet in front of me, and slightly to the right. after around 2 and a half minutes I start to walk closer toward the nightingale whistle, I got off the bench followed the path to the right, then went down the path left to be positioned right next to the tree with it on my left. From the bench the pathway can either go straight or left or back the way I walked, i only had to walk 10 feet so not far from where I was, I continued having a back and forth for a further 20 seconds and then it all of a sudden stopped completely, as if something else had joined. I tried to whistle again and there was a whistle on the right of me about head level about 8 feet away, I haven't heard this whistle it wasn't a bird...it sounded like it came from behind a small tree right next to me. I whistled again, and the whistle was right by my ear this time, once again not a bird. at this point, I was like, "F, this I'm out." There was no bird sounds throughout the park the route I always, which is the quickest route out, takes around 5 to 10 mins. The park isn't massive but secluded and noone goes up there at night, not commonly anyway, that's why I go at that time. The whistle sounded like it was trying to impersonate a human, it was human like, but off. it was too clean but not any bird whistle I recognise, when I looked around there was nothing and noone there next to me. the tree is about 7 feet away from, me to the right, not right by my ear.
Be honest have I summoned bad juju do I need to buy some sage

[joegrimes]

Live in the Midlands, Derby region, Blackbirds strongly remind me of calling home time when I was a kid. The sun was low and I'd be out on my bike. That croaky warble would follow me home :)