About this minute
- Title
- Nightingale with Bombers
- Contributor
- British Library Wildlife Sound Archive
- Year
- 1939 – 1945
- Collections
- Collection 3
Collection 3 #44
You’ve been listening to the sound of a nightingale, recorded in 1942, during World War II. A nightingale is a kind of bird that has a very unusual song. Can you think of some other examples of birdsong from previously in Minute of Listening? Perhaps you also heard the deep, rumbling sound of the bomber…