There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest spine.And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain... Or so says the legend.
Along with the ancient myth about Philomela he intertwined another and probably much more recent, but equally unfounded belief that the nightingale, when it sings, leans against a thorn that pierces its breast. This combination of ignorant fancies is most fully expressed in the following passage:
"Every thing did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leand her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefullst ditty, That to hear it was great pity: Fie, fie, fie, now would she cry; Tereu, tereu! by and by; That to hear her so complain, Scarce I could from tears refrain; For her griefs, so lively shown, Made me think upon my own." [Passionate Pilgrim, 21]
ผมเลย email ไปถาม Dr. Roger Lederer ซึ่งเป็น Ornithologist (นักปักษีวิทยา) แล้วก็ได้คำตอบมาครับ
"Thornbirds do exist (Anumbius anumbii is their scientific name) and they live in South America and do nest in thorn trees.The thornbird, lark, and nightingale are only distanly related. Nightingales, thornbirds, or any other birds DO NOT pierce their own heart for any reason.
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