cawkereeeeeeeeeeee

Someone in the neighborhood has a rooster again. Today was the first time I heard it crowing in the morning/daytime. For the last few weeks, I'd only heard it very late at night. (It's not very loud and doesn't bother me.) I'd wondered if it was crowing in response to seeing me turn the bathroom light on, or at the train that passes by around 2am.

Why Do Roosters Crow?

it’s important for us to point out that roosters will crow at all times and in response to a range of seemingly innocuous stimuli, like the sound of a car or someone walking into their coop. ... Along with being used as a warning of sorts to let other roosters known the boundaries of its territory, the crow can be used to communicate with other birds and sometimes to celebrate getting lucky; roosters really aren’t picky when it comes to excuses for crowing.

That said, although roosters have been observed crowing at all times of day and in response to even the most mundane of stimuli, they will indeed typically crow just before or at the crack of dawn.

Before writing this, I was trying to remember what a rooster's call was called... calling? cawing? Crowing!

But wait. Roosters crow, but crows caw?

https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/comments/6bljeh/why_do_we_say_that_roosters_crow_and_that_crows/