Northern Mockingbird

Description:

Medium-sized mockingbird with gray upperparts, paler gray underparts, and faint eyeline. Wings are gray-black with two white bars and large white patches visible when spread. The tail is long, gray, and edged with white. Eye is yellow. Legs and feet are black. Sexes similar, juvenile has dark eye and streaked underparts. Feeds on fruit and insects.

Habitat:

Wildlife habitat yard on Lake Lewisville.

Notes:

Interesting Facts: The Northern Mockingbird can sing over 200 songs, including those of other birds, insect, amphibians, and even mechanical sounds. This unique ability made the mockingbird an incredibly popular caged bird during and by the early 20th century it was nearly extinct in large cities in America. Today it has nearly fully recovered in these areas, and is in fact experiencing range expansion due to human activities, such as the planting of multiflora roses.