| Among the true nightjars, some species produce slowly or rapidly repeated churring sounds, in some cases rather toadlike, while others produce a warbled or whistled song, not at all disagreeable. |
| Wood pigeons were churring, providing a steady contra-bass to a splendid dawn chorus, but no more cuckoo. |
| Bird-wise, we also have some pretty bizarre names: the churring cisticola, one of a vast family of small, streaky, brown birds which hide in reeds and grasses and utter the calls that give them their names. |
| Frogmouths sing with various nasal booming, hooting, or croaking sounds, and the little-known owlet-frogmouths are reported to give owl-like whistles, churring calls, and a loud hissing note. |
| And out of the distance the nightjar set again to its churring. |
| The churring of the night-hawks was continuous, soothing as the hum of a spinning-wheel. |
