Hobbies And Interests
Coppice Woodland
Nightingales often make their homes in an environment known as "coppice woodland." This sort of habitat is usually packed with well-trimmed, deciduous trees, grown from suckers and sprouts. Here, the birds seek out the underbrush --- thickets, briar patches, stacks of brush, wood poles, shrubs and bushes of varying heights in which they might build their nests.
Wetlands
Since nightingales feed on the ground, they occasionally find their way to the small, shallow marshes and wetlands that harbor a variety of the tiny invertebrates they consume, such as worms and beetles. However, unless these damp spots are well-wooded, the nightingales will rarely stay for any substantive length of time.
Gardens, Groves and Orchards
Because coppice woodland is usually the result of tidy landscaping, it's not unusual for nightingales to be found in man-made areas of vegetation, including rural gardens, vineyards, groves and orchards. However, because of their dull, earth-tone coloring, they are rarely spotted by the humans that maintain such properties.
Winter Habitat
Come late autumn, nightingales fly south from Europe and Asia to the central and western regions of Africa. These areas continue to provide the dense scrub and bush in which nightingales make their homes, though the settings in which they find these plants are often far more arid and far less leafy than in their northern habitats.