teexmmo@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore) (11/05/90)
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.