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Bird-brained; LETTERS.(Letter to the editor)

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20070515
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I DON'T believe any serious research has been carried out to ascertain why robins sing at night (Letters).

The experts have merely put forward a feasible theory that street lighting makes the bird think it's daylight.

One piece of evidence has been completely ignored by the experts. A character in R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone says: 'Everyone knows that robins sing all night.' That book was written in 1845 - which throws a spanner in the works of the street lighting theory.

FRANK GIDDINS, Littleborough, Lancs.

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