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IT is known that chorus, or ‘dawn chorus’, exhibits a pronounced diurnal variation in its occurrence and that different stations show different local times for the diurnal maxima. These maxima have been shown to be a function of geomagnetic latitude by Allcock1 and independently by Pope2.
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POPE, J. Effect of Latitude on the Diurnal Maximum of ‘Dawn Chorus’. Nature 185, 87–88 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185087b0
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