The males are known for their loud mating songs that sound like hissing chirps.

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Ask not for whom the zebra finch chirps...

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It takes the colony 20 minutes to complete the pass, while their deafening chirps engulf the night sky.

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Count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37.

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The high-pitched chirps of coqui frogs echoed among the vines.

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"We were very lucky during the nuclear age, " chirps the puckish 60-year-old professor.

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Sweeping strings evoke images of a beautiful sunny summer day, laying in the grass by a pond, complete with the chirps of crickets and the sound of wind through the trees.

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The chirps and buzzes of countless critters surged, and the gator made a fluid escape as would many others.

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