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Silent spring revisited
In a book about the dawn chorus, about songbirds and birdsong, the Peregrine Falcon might not be the obvious place to start, but bear with me. For one thing, you don’t have to ponder for long the question ‘What is a songbird?’ or ‘What combines to make the dawn chorus?’ to realise that these are broader concepts than they may have appeared at first glance. All birds are songbirds. Either they all sing, or none of them do, if ‘song’ is what you choose to call the utterances they make to attract attention to themselves or express any from a broad spectrum of emotions. We think of Peregrines as predators, but all our birds – bar one or two of our finch species – are predators for at least part of their life cycle. They eat meat, and sometimes they eat each other.
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