Birds Singing Before Dawn

[paross]

At 5.45am this morning there was bird singing in the pitch black. Does anyone know which birds do this?

[gness]

Robins, Blackbirds and Thrushes are the early risers. Occasionally a Wren will join in.

[novalis]

I hear both blackbirds and robins at that time. The blackbirds usually start first.

[fitdarren]

Blackbirds around here.

[bookbinder]

I was once told that birds that have the largest eyes sing before dawn. Apparently, the large eyes enable the bird to absorb more light, and thus they can see quite well in relative darkness.

[Chipchopper]

The first bird I thought of was a robin, often sing under a street lamp.

[ladybirder]

I thought a Robin as well. They can sing all through the night. Here's an interesting piece from the RSPB.

//Singing is hard work, and uses hard won food reserves, so it is the fittest, best-fed males who produce the strongest, most impressive song. Females therefore choose a mate who sings best, because such a male is more likely to be good at raising chicks, to have a good territory, or to pass successful genes to their young. \\

[douglas9401]

:-)

[Tilly2]

I read somewhere that light pollution has altered the way birds behave because it rarely gets completely dark.

[brian j john]

Probably one that couldn't sleep and decided to get up early

[Maydup]

I have an app on my phone that identifies birds from their birdsong. I love it as quite often you can’t see the birds but you can hear them singing away and it’s lovely to start learning how to identify them.

It’s called Merlin Bird ID and it’s free.

[Hazlinny]

Usually a blackbird - have often heard them early as they fly from rooftop to rooftop.

[bobbinwales]

Hopefully a mod can get rid of this spammer whose posted 2 this morning