Sunday 10 May 2015

INTERNATIONAL DAWN CHORUS DAY






Sunday 3rd May is
INTERNATIONAL DAWN CHORUS DAY
Know your Chiff Chaff from your Willow Warbler? they look very alike but their song gives them away.
Bird lovers from around the world will be joining in on this world-wide event.

So, why not drag yourself out of bed, go for a stroll or sit in your garden and enjoy the birdsong, you could always tell us how you got on!?

The dawn chorus starts before sunrise with one or two birds singing. 
The robin is known to sing all night long 
http://www.xeno-canto.org/27554    Copy and paste link
Around 4.30am another resident songster, the blackbird, breaks the robin's monopoly.
http://www.xeno-canto.org/25554    Copy and paste link
The dawn chorus is joined later on by other species 
Perhaps a woodpigeon with their characteristic ‘coo-coo coo coo-coo’
A song thrush, with a repeated  phrases several times.  http://www.xeno-canto.org/237596
A wren with its trilling song.
Willow warbler   http://www.xeno-canto.org/236672
Chiff chaff
Blackcap
Go to Xeno canto for lots of bird song recordings


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