| Wood pigeons were churring, providing a steady contra-bass to a splendid dawn chorus, but no more cuckoo. |
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| One of the best things I've done recently is to head out at dusk in summer to hear the nightjars churring. |
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| Frogmouths sing with various nasal booming, hooting, or croaking sounds, and the little-known owlet-frogmouths are reported to give owl-like whistles, churring calls, and a loud hissing note. |
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| Among the true nightjars, some species produce slowly or rapidly repeated churring sounds, in some cases rather toadlike, while others produce a warbled or whistled song, not at all disagreeable. |
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| Bird-wise, we also have some pretty bizarre names: the churring cisticola, one of a vast family of small, streaky, brown birds which hide in reeds and grasses and utter the calls that give them their names. |
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