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Video: Mockingbird is a talented bird
2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55
Mockingbird is a unique bird. She got her name because of the ability to imitate the voices of all animals, birds and even humans.
A farmer told how a mockingbird almost drove his pets crazy. The bird built a nest in the loach thickets literally next to the entrance to the house. The smart bird very quickly learned to cackle like a chicken and easily imitated the squeak of a lost chicken, which led the laying hen into noisy excitement. After some time, the mocking bird mastered another sound: a whistle. With such a whistle, the farmer usually called the dog for a walk outside the farm. Hearing the call of the owner, the dog happily rushed to look for the owner, who at that time was not even at home. Further more. March approached, and the many-voiced mockingbird (a bird apparently possessing a sense of humor) began to reproduce the sounds of a cat in love and longing. All the local cats responded to the loud call, but for a long time they could not understand where the lady in love was calling them, and where she was hiding.
Mockingbird is a talented bird
Scientists believe that the mockingbird is the most songbird in the world. Her own, inimitable, singing is very pleasant: rhythmic measures, including up to 6 tones, can flow for an hour. The Mockingbird sings in such a variety of ways that his singing is often mistaken for a whole chorus of voices. Only experts can quickly figure out that only the mockingbird sings.
The mockingbird, the photo of which is given in this article, imitates better than many of its fellows. On one occasion, observers heard a mockingbird reproduce the song of 32 birds in ten minutes. In total, there are about 200 songs in the repertoire of the "average" mockingbird. It is interesting that mockingbirds live well in captivity, and their "repertoire" becomes even more extensive. Individuals are known that can grunt, moo, and even imitate the sounds of a running hair dryer and mixer.
Who is the mockingbird?
The bird belongs to the passerine family. An interesting fact: it flies in small arcs and during the flight it folds and unfolds its tail exactly as the warblers do. And on the ground it jumps exactly like a thrush. It turns out that even the movements of the mockingbird copy other birds. The Mockingbird is friendly and aggressive at the same time. These birds of the passerine family can settle near houses and farms, in sandy clearings and in thickets of bushes among fields. Sometimes birds settle in the forest. The mockingbird becomes aggressive with the advent of chicks. At this time, he attacks everyone (even a person) who tries to get closer to his nest, made of shreds and leaves, lined with soft rags from the inside (where does he find them?). Thesesmall grayish-brown birds with an almost white belly and a black beak curved down are extremely dangerous at the moment of attack, although they do not grow more than 25 centimeters.
Where does the mockingbird live?
Mockingbirds are Americans by birth, they are distributed from Canada to Mexico and the Caribbean, but the birds prefer the territories located between Florida and Texas. These states, along with Mississippi and Arkansas, consider mockingbirds to be their national treasures. Even lullabies are dedicated to them. The mockingbird family has about a dozen "relatives": brown-backed, tropical, Bahamian, Patagonian, etc. The most "talented" of them is the polyphonic mockingbird, which is discussed in this article.
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