bird chorus

English

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Noun

bird chorus (plural bird choruses)

1. The collective singing and vocalising of birds.

   Hyponym: dawn chorus

   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 301:

     He went back to bed and dozed till the dawn came – the mass-produced invariable tropical dawn, greeted by no bird-chorus, a dawn assignable to all months in this land of no seasons.