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Northern Mockingbird

Mimus polyglottos

Description:

If you’ve been hearing an endless string of 10 or 15 different birds singing outside your house, you might have a Northern Mockingbird in your yard. These slender-bodied gray birds apparently pour all their color into their personalities. They sing almost endlessly, even sometimes at night, and they flagrantly harass birds that intrude on their territories, flying slowly around them or prancing toward them, legs extended, flaunting their bright white wing patches. [Cornell]

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5 Comments

Tom15
Tom15 11 years ago

Thanks for all the nice comments!

Elsa
Elsa 11 years ago

Beautiful capture :)

SnowyBro
SnowyBro 11 years ago

Really nice and detailed!

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 11 years ago

Beautiful picture...

MyriamMcmanus
MyriamMcmanus 11 years ago

I have seen this kind of bird mixed with the regular birds outside in my garden and wondered what kind of bird it was.

Tom15
Spotted by
Tom15

Groton, Massachusetts, USA

Spotted on Apr 4, 2013
Submitted on Apr 5, 2013

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