Songs for a Mockingbird

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    From one spring to the next, an individual male mockingbird repeats a minimum of 35 to 63 percent of his previously heard song types, while at the same time adding more songs to his delivery. This explains why your backyard mockingbird changes its vocal personality from year to year, as well as why a mocker in Oakland will sound different from one in San Rafael.

    Most likely, sexual selection: That is, you can generally detect—from variations in tone and context—the difference be-tween a mockingbird mimicking an Amer-ican robin, and a robin.

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    And so can the robin. Accordingly, few researchers believe that mockingbirds displace the mimicked birds. Rather, the mockingbird sings to establish, or defend its territory from other mockingbirds. Northern mockingbirds may sing year-round, but they are especially vocal during courtship and in autumn when singing is used to establish territories for the coming winter.

    The next time you hear a mockingbird sing, stop and see if you can pick out the phrases and guess where they came from. Most of the state has set record temperatures this summer, but San Francisco has been cool and almost permanently cloudy because of its cool marine layer. Ask the Naturalist The Ocean. The answer might surprise you. Ask the Naturalist Wildlife. A reader asks about the fate of a family of river otters living in Coyote Creek, which dried up in many places in the drought.

    We have a mockingbird living in our cherry tree.

    Mockingbirds Can Learn Hundreds of Songs, But There’s a Limit

    In Hershey PA I followed 50 tunes and lost count. In Los Angeles I have managed to concentrate up to 64 and then felt unsure if they were repeats or not. The songs are glorious except when they are mimicking squirrels or crows. They carry on all night and any season.

    We have a mocking bird that stays in our Red Tips. Everyday it sings a beautiful melody. I could not start my day without its song! Live inPinellas Park, Fl. There are 2 mo cking birds under my roof. Can you pick out the sounds of other birds embedded in his melodies? You might hear the Cheer! How many different songs can you distinguish? Entertain yourself by seeing if you can count how many times he repeats one phrase before switching to a different one.

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    Even though he sings the same snippet of song a number of times in a row, you'll find that after he goes on to another song he does not return to the first one — not until he's run through dozens or even hundreds of other songs he knows. I've found that when I actively listened to the mockingbird at night, I started to enjoy the music.

    I was amazed at how many songs this bird knew. And if it cost me a little sleep, I figured it was a fair trade for an extraordinary experience.

    Sleeping, I decided, is not the purpose of my life — experience is. But the way it worked out, after listening for a while without trying to shut out the sound I would fall asleep. The mockingbird's song became like a lullaby. I think if you try listening to the mockingbird, its song will become dear to you.

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    Their singing is not only voluminous but also diverse. Law and the mockingbird Law is on the side of love and the bird, for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of makes it illegal to kill, harm, or harass the mockingbird and other migratory birds. Just swipe the wand across a bar code. Ask the Naturalist The Ocean. I know I do.

    And someday if you move out of the mockingbird's range, you will miss it. The iFlyer is really simple and fun to use.

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    Just swipe the wand across a bar code. The song comes out of the wide end of the wand. Includes a nice little book with good color pictures of each bird. You can play the song right from the book!

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    The iFlyer comes with an extra set of bar codes to stick next to the picture of the bird in your field guide. Then your favorite book can be a singing guide too!

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    Everyone interested in watching wild birds deserves her or his very own binoculars. A good binocular for getting started does not have to be expensive, but it should have good optical quality. I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. Law and the mockingbird Law is on the side of love and the bird, for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of makes it illegal to kill, harm, or harass the mockingbird and other migratory birds.

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