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dawn chorus

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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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Visitors should feel a "connection" to the birds, Jimmy says, returning to the days of being woken by the dawn chorus.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

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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