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dawn chorus

British  

noun

  1. the singing of large numbers of birds at dawn

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The dawn chorus can be heard from late January, with more and more birds joining in, external as the weather gets warmer.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

Around the world, in spring and summer time, birds sing every morning in the daily dawn chorus.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2023

“There’s an acute need to obtain more sound recordings of many species, of the dawn chorus and sounds at night,” Benner says.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2023

Still, “For the Birds” is the most audacious entry in a new dawn chorus of charitable recordings that either use birdsong as fodder or as the entire track itself.

From New York Times • May 17, 2022

I woke up disoriented as the crackle of shimmering sparks turned into the dawn chorus of birds.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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