birdsong

noun

bird·​song ˈbərd-ˌsȯŋ How to pronounce birdsong (audio)
: the song of one or more birds

Examples of birdsong in a Sentence

The forest was filled with birdsong.
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Before sunrise in Dien Phuong, Vietnam, clay artists set up their workbenches beneath swaying bamboo by the Thu Bon River, shaping ceramic works to the sound of birdsong. Faye Bradley, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025 Phoneticians used it to examine the acoustic aspects of speech, and zoologists used it to record birdsongs. IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2025 But Gilbert and Brent Pease, with Southern Illinois University, took a more comprehensive view, by analyzing millions of recordings of birdsong. Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025 To reach their conclusion, researchers from Southern Illinois University and Oklahoma State University analyzed 2.6 million onsets of birdsong in the morning and cessations of it in the evening. New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for birdsong

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of birdsong was in 1896

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“Birdsong.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birdsong. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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