Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/May 5

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Word of the day
for May 5
dawn chorus n
  1. Birdsong by a large number of birds occurring in the early morning.
  2. (electromagnetism, radio) Radio interference sometimes experienced at sunrise.

Today, the first Sunday of May in 2024, is International Dawn Chorus Day, which was originally organized by the Urban Wildlife Trust (now the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country) to encourage people to listen to birdsong and engage in birdwatching. The British naturalist Chris Baines, one of the founders of the Trust, was born on Sunday, 4 May 1947.

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