chirruping

There was a frantic chirruping coming from somewhere close by.

And the call was like the chirruping of birds on a sunny spring morning.

Silence, save for the quiet chirruping, the distant soft croaking.

There was a chirruping, a hum of night creatures, lulling in its monotone.

I remember hearing the chirruping of a cicada so clear and near that I thought it must have got itself trapped inside the house.

The chirruping of the insects surrounded him.

He heard the chirruping of the insects, the buzzing of the white moths around the house lights.

There was a hiss over the PA, followed by the chirruping of recorded birdsong.

Insects set up a persistent chirruping.

To tell the truth, it took me quite a while to realize that the pitiable chirruping I heard all about me was, in fact, human speech.

The warmth of summer still lingered in the evening air, and the silence was broken only by the chirruping of birds in the surrounding woods.

And the temperature hardly falls at night, when the squawks, croaks and chirruping of the rainforest merge with our dreams.

In the deserted street it was still dark and the drip-drip of the water from the trees alternated with the insistent chirruping of drenched sparrows.

Here the air was redolent with the smell of sun-warmed mangiri trees and full of the sleepy chirruping of cicadas.

He also discovered that the Wedgebill comprised two separate species, the Chirruping and Chiming Wedgebills.

The Chirruping Wedgebill (Psophodes cristatus) is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family.

The rustle of heather as Barney shifted his feet; the deep distant call of a sheep; the persistent tuneless chirruping of some small unseen bird.

It was normally alive with the chirruping of crickets, the buzz of mosquitoes, the hiss and whisper of hunting wings skimming across the cooling sands.

There was a thin, acrid smell, like ozone, and, above them, a chirruping, fizzing noise that seemed to fall down on the room, with a physical movement, like rain.

Tucked away behind the rear wall of the Confucius Temple, this cultured courtyard bar is sedately arranged with sofas and set to the chirruping of grasshoppers.

He drew in and sat atop his luma for a time, looking about and listening to the chirruping of the cicadas and the quiet croaking of the river frogs.

Beyond, in the depths of the jade ocean, the buzz of fat flies was joined by the chirruping of cicadas, a foreshadow of the quick slash of dusk.

Phaethon adjusted his sense-filter so that, instead of the roar of jets and the whine of magnetics, he still only heard the chirruping of night insects in the Saturn-grove.

It also supports populations of Eyrean Grasswrens, Black Honeyeaters, Banded Whitefaces, Chirruping Wedgebills and Cinnamon Quail-thrushes.

Other species recorded in the IBA include Australian Bustard, Black and Pied Honeyeaters, Chirruping Wedgebill and Grey Falcon.