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n. (night bird English)
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Night Birds, released in 1982 on the Polydor label, is the second album by Shakatak. Night Birds established Shakatak's trademark jazz-funk sound, and contains two of the band's biggest hits, "Easier Said than Done" and "Night Birds", the former reaching the No. 12 spot in 1981, the latter climbing to No. 9 in the following year.
Night Birds may refer to:
- Night Birds (album), a 1982 album by Shakatak
- Night Birds (film), a 1930 British thriller film
- Night Birds, an American punk rock band who appeared at Insubordination Fest 2010
Night Birds is a 1930 British-German thriller film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Jack Raine, Muriel Angelus and Jameson Thomas. A separate German language version, The Copper, was made at the same time.
Usage examples of "night birds".
Even the night birds and the bullfrogs of the swamp had been silenced by that dreadful sound.
They spent a hungry but dry night beneath the forest canopy, listening to the passage of monkey-sized animals through the trees and the gentle cheeping of small night birds.
In the damp of spring, lovers walking through the ancient avenues could hear the calls of night birds and the exotic music of insects.
Dany could hear the distant call of night birds, the hiss and crackle of the torches, the gentle lapping of water from the lake.
The raptors and the night birds could see everything, watch everyone.
The bats and night birds would begin to dart about, snatching invisible insects on the wing, and managing magically never to collide with us or any tree branches or each other.
The rush of wings overhead was audible as night birds flitted from tree to tree and owls went on the hunt.