Mockingbird is a talented bird

A many-voiced mockingbird is a unique bird. Its name was due to the ability to imitate the voices of all animals, birds and even humans.

One farmer told how a mockingbird almost drove his pets wild. The bird built a nest in the thickets of the loach just next to the entrance to the house. Clever ptaha very quickly learned to cackle like a chicken and easily imitated the squeaking of the lost chicken, which led to noisy excitement of the hen. After some time, the mocking bird mastered another sound: a whistle. With such a whistle, a farmer usually called a dog for a walk outside the farm. Hearing the call of the owner, the dog gladly rushed to look for the owner, who at that time and the house was not there. Further more. March came up, and the many-voiced mockingbird (a bird, apparently having a sense of humor) began to reproduce the sounds of a loving and longing cat. All the local cats responded loudly, but for a long time they could not understand where their lady in love was calling, 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 pour for an hour. Mockingbird sings so diverse that his singing is often mistaken for a whole chorus of voices. Only specialists can quickly understand that only a mockingbird is singing.

The bird-mockingbird, whose photo is given in this article, and imitates better than many of his brethren. Once the observers heard how in ten minutes the mockingbird reproduced the singing of 32 birds. In total, the repertoire of the "average" mockingbird is about 200 songs. It is interesting that mockingbirds perfectly live in captivity, and their "repertoire" becomes even more extensive. Known individuals who know how to grunt, moo and even simulate the sounds of a working hair dryer and mixer.

Who is a mockingbird?

The bird is included in the family of passerines. An interesting fact: it flies in small arcs and during folding, reveals the tail exactly the way it does chiffchaff. And on the ground jumps exactly like a thrush. It turns out that even the movements of a mockingbird copy other birds. Mockingbird is friendly and aggressive at the same time. These birds of the passerine family can settle near houses and farms, on sandy clearings and in thickets of bushes among the fields. Sometimes the birds settle in the forest. An aggressive mockingbird becomes with the advent of chicks. At this time he attacks everyone (even a person) who is trying to get closer to his nest folded from shreds and leaves, lined with soft cloths (where does he find them?). These small greyish-brown birds with an almost white belly and black, bent down beak are extremely dangerous at the time of attack, although they do not grow more than 25 centimeters.

Where does the mockingbird live?

Mockingbirds are native Americans, they are common from Canada to Mexico and the Caribbean, but more birds love the territories located between Florida and Texas. These states, together with Mississippi and Arkansas, consider mocker as their national treasure. Even lullabies are dedicated to them. The family of mockingbirds has about a dozen "relatives": brospine, tropical, Bahamian, Patagonian, etc. The most "talented" of them is a many-voiced mockingbird, referred to in this article.