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The beauty of nightingale song
Nightingales are best known for their vocal abilities. Male birds especially, sing for hours on end each night during the breeding season - and none more so than during the first full moon of May.
But numbers have declined strongly over recent decades. Today Programme presenter Martha Kearney went for a late-night eavesdrop with the writer Richard Mabey.
(Image: Nightingale; Credit: Reuters)
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