A Northern Mockingbird grasping onto a reed in a dried-up marsh around Lake Hodges.
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A Northern Mockingbird grasping onto a reed in a dried-up marsh around Lake Hodges.
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Great picture.
I saw it in Key West, Florida, few years ago.
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They are super fun birds. If you ever see one again, you can whistle a song at it and it will mimic your song back to you. Hence the ‘mocking’ in mockingbird.
They are actually the basis for the mockingjay in the Hunger Games. I didn’t realize that people didn’t know that mockingbirds will sing your songs back at you like the mockingjays do in the books until the movie came out. Someone I know mentioned that they wished birds did that in real life and I told them that mockingbirds do! I used it to do it all the time when I was a kid. Granted, they don’t do elaborate songs with hundreds of them joining in like in the movie, but an individual bird will mock your song back at you!
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I didn’t know this anecdote. Interesting.
I don’t think to see it soon. I live in Guadeloupe now and after I will back to South of France… but in Guadeloupe, we have the Tropical Mockingbird…I don’t know if it can sing like yours.
Where do you from?
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These birds are so cheery and pleasant – we have them in front of our house all the time. I like the way this one shows his ‘soft’ beige side against the background.
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