“To many of us, however, this is the most delectable of natural sounds. It's an hour before dawn, it's spring, this is an English woodland. All around, the dawn chorus. It's so familiar that perhaps we take it for granted.”

— David Attenborough

"The Eloquent Communicators"
The Life of Birds (1998)

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