Where Has the Dawn Chorus Gone?

Photo by Sarath C M on Unsplash

I’ve lived in a little grey house at the edge of the woods for more than forty years now. A city girl before I moved here, I was astonished and delighted to be awakened every dawn from March through September by a cacophony of bird song.

Known as the dawn chorus (or sometimes referred to as the dawn choir), this dependable event is the sound of hundreds of birds — robins, mockingbirds, cardinals, wrens, and…