The Japanese Bush Warbler 鶯(ウグイス) (Cettia diphone) is a passerine bird more often heard than seen. Its distinctive breeding call "Hoohokekyo" can be heard throughout much of Japan from the start of spring. It is one of favorite motives of Japanese poetry, featuring in many poems including poems in Manyoshu or Kokinshu. In haiku and renga, uguisu is one of the kigo which signify the early spring. Jump to: navigation, search Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Jump to: navigation, search Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Jump to: navigation, search Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicatas Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include... Jump to: navigation, search Orders Many - see section below. ... Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ... Genus Many: see text The Old World Warblers, family Sylviidae, are a group of more than 280 small insectivorous passerine bird species. ... Species About 35, see text Bush warblers are small insectivorous birds belonging to the genera Cettia and Bradypterus of the Old World warbler family Sylviidae. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Kittlitz (February 16, 1799 - April 10, 1874) was a Polish-born German artist, naval officer, explorer and naturalist. ... Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ... Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ... Jump to: navigation, search Grave of the Japanese poet Yosa Buson The best-known forms of Japanese poetry (outside Japan) are haiku and senryu. ... Jump to: navigation, search Manyoshu (万葉集 ManyōshÅ«, Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves) is the oldest existing, and most highly revered, collection of Japanese poetry, compiled sometime in the Nara or early Heian periods. ... Kokin (waka)shu (古今(和歌)集 kokin (waka)shū, collection of ancient and modern poems) is an early Heian waka anthology, conceived by Emperor Uda (r. ... Jump to: navigation, search Haiku (俳句) is one of the most important modes of Japanese poetry, a late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the old hokku, the opening verse of a linked verse form, haikai no renga. ... Renga (連歌) is a form of Japanese collaborative poetry. ... Jump to: navigation, search Cherry trees from Japan around the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC. Kigo (season word(s), from the Japanese 季語, kigo) are words or phrases that are generally associated with a particular season. ...

The bird is drab-coloured, and secretive. It is normally only seen in spring before there is foliage in the trees. In winter the call is a low chirping, in haiku the bird with this song is known as sasako, and the song is called sasanaki.

Songs

• Song-1: Pi pi pi... kekyo kekyo Hooo- hoke'kyo Hoohokekyo. A young bird can't sing well with "hoo hokekyo" from the beginning. It learns to sing gradually with "hoo hokekyo" with imitating surrounding song.
• Song-2: Hooo- hokekyo, hooo- hokekyo. The songs of two Japanese Bush Warbler are composed in 1 file.
• Song-3: Hoohokekyo
• Song-4: Hoohokekyo
• Song-5: Hoohokekyo

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• Recordings of call