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Cycle of songBy: Richard Chambers That feeling of autumn freshness in the morning air has arrived. The cicadas have been singing loudly through February but have you wondered where the birds are? Remember that frantic bird activity and dawn chorus from August through to January?
Late summer is a resting time for birds as they moult their old feathers. Even the frantically energetic tui quietens down. Gone are the days of tuis waking in song at 4.30 in the morning and still calling at night after the morepork (ruru) is up and about.
Likewise the thrush stopped its dawn song around Christmas, and the blackbird followed suit in January. These birds can look a bit rough during the autumn moult as they lose feathers.