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Article #1298Re: Early birds
From: Matthew Moore
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 1990 11:59
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 1990 11:59
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ms ml hong > writes: >I am not sure whether anyone of you have had such encounters but recently, I >discovered that birds would start to sing and chirp as early as three hours >before dawn! They are definitely not owls and would gather in flocks on the >trees. It is usually still too dark for me to see them and the singing would >stop about an hour before dawn. I do not recognise the singing and therefore >can't identify them. > >Is it normal for birds (excluding nocturnal ones) to be active so early in the >day? Has it something to do with the geographical location (I am living in >Melbourne, Australia)? > Is there any street lighting? Here in sunny London, (and elsewhere in the UK), robins, in particular, can often be heard singing in the small hours, in areas with street lighting.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!educ-isis!teexmmo From: teexmmo@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore) Newsgroups: sci.bio,rec.birds Subject: Re: Early birds Message-ID: <1990Nov5.115920.14431@ioe.lon.ac.uk> Date: 5 Nov 90 11:59:20 GMT References: <5589@monu1.cc.monash.oz> Reply-To: teexmmo@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore) Organization: Institute of Education University of London Lines: 16