Recently came up in discussion with a few friends scattered around the world and it was fascinating hearing all the different species that they associate with waking up- doves, gulls, cicadas, car sirens… What species do you most associate with your mornings and dawn chorus where you are? For me, …

I’ve had an American robin in my neighborhood the past couple springs that absolutely delights in singing at top volume from the neighbor’s roof at dawn. Other than that, blue jays sometimes (often at dusk) and northern cardinals particularly in late spring. I’m not often awake at dawn, but that’s t…

Depending on season, white-winged doves, house finches, and house sparrows, and the kekking call of Cooper’s hawks. EDIT: Forgot to mention our backyard chickens.

The screech of blue jays or the coos of feral pigeons .

The sounds that I prefer to hear are chickadees, cardinals, jays, ect. The sound I sometimes hear is raccoons attempting to chew holes in the house. The first one I get to lay there and enjoy, the second I have go out and run off, exactly what I want to do at 4 am.

There’s this bird that sits in the oak tree outside my window and does this really annoying trill at 4am. Thing is I’ve heard it multiple times but I’ve never actually seen it. It’s a monotone, loud, fast-paced chipchipchipchipchipchipchipchipchipchip

Living in south Texas, I hear mourning doves and house sparrows along with mockingbirds.

Before sunrise: Ornate chorus frogs Sunrise: Styan’s bulbuls After sunrise: the monk Barbet

[image] pmeisenheimer: White throated sparrow. I was headed out when I posted the original reply and didn’t have time for the context. I grew up in northern Ontario and the song of white throated sparrows and the smell of white pine have always been associated, in my mind, with being home. I…

In Southern California it’s Bewick’s wrens. I waffle between finding their song incredibly beautiful and extremely obnoxious. When it’s mating season for the mockinbirds the males sing night and day until they get a mate. Which is sometimes a painfully long time. In Western Pennsylvania it was alwa…

What is(are) your dawn chorus species?

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DriftlessRoots August 24, 2020, 12:56am 17

American Robins usually start in around 3 to 4 AM and then mostly it’s Northern Cardinals I notice. The silence in winter is beyond depressing so I sleep in some times as late as 6.

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What is(are) your dawn chorus species?

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