He is an icon of the morning. In most every rural
scene he crows to greet the dawn. He crosses
cultural and geographical boundaries as the
harbinger of daylight. He says “Cock-a-doodle-do”
in English, “Kikeriki” in German, “Kuklooku” in
Urdu, and “Ko-ke-kok-ko-o” in Japanese. Biblical
scenes center around his call, and he takes top
billing in the folklore of countless cultures.
In Southeast Asia, the Hmong tell this tale: A long
time ago, when the world was new, the sky held
nine suns. The land was hot, the river dried up,
and crops began to die. The people decided to ask
their best archer to shoot the suns out of the sky.
The next day, one by one, he shot the suns.
Frightened, the last remaining sun hid behind a
mountain where the archer could not reach her.
Soon the people realized their mistake. The world
grew cold, and the crops did not grow. The people
spoke gently to the hiding sun to coax her back.
They also asked animals and songbirds to try, but
none could convince her to return. Finally,
someone suggested the rooster, because he was
fearless and would not give up. Agreeing to help,
the rooster crowed three times, and the sun,
believing she was safe, rose from behind the
mountain. To show gratitude to the rooster, the
sun placed a bit of the morning sky on top of his
head.
But why is it that the rooster gets so excited about
dawn’s rosy fingers? Does he take his job as the
farm’s alarm clock too seriously? Does he just
have something important to say?
Turns out the answer is simpler than you might
think. First, roosters crow all the time. The
connection with the sun coming up is a
misconception. “They might, on occasion, crow
right at dawn. But it’s just a coincidence,” Pete
Alcorn ( TransitionsAbroad.com ) says. “Roosters
crow whenever they feel like it: morning, noon and
night, not to mention afternoon, evening and the
parts of the day that don’t have names.”
Roosters crow because they hear other roosters
crowing, to show that a certain place in the
barnyard is their turf, to try and assert their
authority over another rooster, or even to gloat
when a hen cackles after laying an egg. Joe Faust,
the Accidental Farmer (JoeCliffordFaust.com/
chickens ), says, “I think the general rule for this is
that a rooster crows any time it wants to – or feels
the need. For all I know, mine may crow on and off
all night, but I just hear them in the morning.”
As a diurnal animal (one that is active during the
day), the rooster starts his daily doings when the
sun comes up. If you think about early morning,
it’s almost always associated with bird song. Most
birds seem to spend time shouting their messages
to the world in the morning, and chickens are no
different.
David Feldman addresses this question in When Do
Fish Sleep? He quotes Janet Hinshaw of the Wilson
Ornithological Society who says, “Most of the
crowing takes place in the morning, as does most
singing, because that is when the birds are most
active, and most of the territorial advertising takes
place then. Many of the other vocalizations heard
throughout the day are for other types of
communication, including flocking calls, which
serve to keep members of a flock together and in
touch if they are out of sight from one another.”
The reason that we associate a rooster’s crow with
the dawn is most likely because that’s when it’s
most noticeable to our sleepy selves. When the
relative quiet of night is disturbed by the local
rooster, we sit up, take notice, and maybe grumble
a little on the way to the barn.

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