About this game
Every song snippet and photo comes from Wikimedia Commons, contributed under free licences by birders and naturalists around the world. The dawn-chorus decline narrative draws on long-running RSPB and BTO monitoring — UK farmland birds are down around 60% since 1970, with several once-common species (turtle dove, cuckoo, corn bunting) now near-vanished from much of the country.
Accessibility: the game is fully playable without sound. Each song is rendered as a scrolling waveform and a live spectrum, accompanied by a short verbal description of its shape.
The birds
Round 1 — 2026
- Robin Erithacus rubecula
- Blackbird Turdus merula
- Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
- Great Tit Parus major
- Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus
- Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus
- Dunnock Prunella modularis
- Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
- Song Thrush Turdus philomelos
- Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
Round 2 — 2000
- Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- European Greenfinch Chloris chloris
- Eurasian Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
- Coal Tit Periparus ater
- Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea
- Eurasian Treecreeper Certhia familiaris
- Goldcrest Regulus regulus
- Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
- Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis
- Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella
- Common Linnet Linaria cannabina
- Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
Round 3 — 1975
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur
- Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra
- Grey Partridge Perdix perdix
- Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Eurasian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Lesser Whitethroat Curruca curruca
- Marsh Tit Poecile palustris
- Willow Tit Poecile montanus
- Rook Corvus frugilegus
- Western Jackdaw Coloeus monedula