These birds remain fairly common despite continuing loss of habitat, but are secretive by nature and more often heard than seen.

The garden ran to the river; birds sang in the willows, and at night one heard the stream.

He had set the birds free when he'd heard the warhorns sound once more, calling the Watch to horse.

"Not even a bird can hear us," he said then.

Speak to me so that Shiki and the other birds cannot hear.

It has been suggested that birds also hear each other's bird song in terms of vocal gestures.

If the birds in heaven heard him, they would stop singing.

Had a bird heard him playing and changed its course?

By now the bird can hear the voices of the worms inside his head, even when he is not asleep.

She breathed a sigh of relief, and the bird must have heard her.