What is "early birds"

Usage examples of "early birds".

Three reporters and an editor were at their desks, all guys with reputations as early birds, including Hank Hawkins, editor of the business pages, who liked to be at work when the financial markets opened on the East Coast.

These early birds all had clean sets of wheels and, sure enough, they stayed high.

It was a Saturday, a day when the beaches at Waikiki and the windward side of the island were slowly coming alive with early birds awake for an early morning dip.

The morning was growing stronger in the space beyond the skylights, and I could hear a couple of early birds calling in the new fresh air.

Three reporters an an editor were at their desks, all guys with reputations as early birds including Hank Hawkins, editor of the business pages, who liked to be at work when the financial markets opened on the East Coast.

Malone felt a certain grim satisfaction in observing that the newspapermen had evidently also had a little trouble with the songs of the early birds.