dawn chorus

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Noun

dawn chorus (plural dawn choruses)

  1. Early-morning birdsong.
    • 2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 24:
      Hadadas roost in numbers among the trees in the leafier parts of Nairobi and their eponymous call is one of the more insistent elements of the dawn chorus in that part of the world, though they may be heard at any time of the day.
    • 2020 March 25, Steve Roberts, “Parly-vous?”, in Rail, page 68:
      Staying just under a mile from Gillingham station, I was up before the dawn chorus and parked at the station car park (£5.20 all day) in time for that 0456.
  2. Radio interference sometimes experienced at sunrise.

Coordinate terms
  • auroral chorus

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