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	Northern Mockingbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mockingbirds usually sing the loudest in the twilight of the early morning when the sun is on the horizon.
		Mockingbirds have a strong preference for certain trees, such as maple, sweet gum (green 5-pointed leaves and prickly porous balls), and sycamore.
		The Mockingbird is celebrated in a song of the same name by Barclay James Harvest, and in the title and central metaphor of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Mockingbird (574 words)

	Northern Mockingbird
		Mockingbirds established a breeding territory in the spring and a separate territory concentrated around a food source during the non-breeding season, which they must defend against other fruit-eating birds.
		Mockingbird pairs may remain together for life, but some pairs, especially in the northern part of the range, separate to establish their own distinct winter territories.
		Northern Mockingbirds sing most of the year, from February to August, and again from late September to early November, when winter territories are being established.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /mockingbird_info.htm (716 words)

	Encyclopedia: Northern Mockingbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the...
		In said novel, mockingbirds are portrayed as innocent and generous, and the main characters say that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.
		The highest densities of Northern Mockingbirds are found from Florida along the Gulf Coast to central Texas, in areas where the average January temperature is at least 30 degrees.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Northern-Mockingbird (1312 words)

	Northern Mockingbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mockingbird nests can be found one to 50 feet above the ground in the fork of a tree or on the branch of a bush.
		Habitat and Distribution: The Northern Mockingbird is distributed widely and it has extended its range much farther north in recent years.
		Mockingbirds live year-around across Texas where they frequent lawns and gardens in urban and rural environments, edges of open woods, farmland, streamside thickets and brushy deserts.
	www.holoweb.com /cannon/northergn.htm (331 words)

	The Northern Mockingbird nesting, mating, feeding habits
		The Northern Mockingbird is 9 to 11 inches in length.
		The nest construction of the Northern Mockingbird is done by both the male and female.
		Northern Mockingbirds will defend their feeding-winter territories against other birds such as Robins, Starlings, and woodpeckers who also compete for fruits.
	www.wild-bird-watching.com /Mockingbird.html (519 words)

	Northern Mockingbird
		The Northern Mockingbird, family Mimidae, is one of 31 species of catbirds, thrashers, and mockingbirds that occur in the western hemisphere.
		The Northern Mockingbird, or "many tongued mimic," is known for its distinctive gray plumage, large white wing patches and its seemingly tireless repertoire of songs.
		The Northern Mockingbird is a gray and white robin sized bird with a wingspan of 13 to 15 inches.
	www.wbu.com /chipperwoods/photos/nomock.htm (587 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD
		Mockingbirds build their nests in trees, shrubs, and vines up to a height of fifty feet; they use twigs, leaves, horsehair, grass, cotton, string, and other materials.
		Mockingbirds are among the most capable defenders of their territory and frequently attack hawks and cats, which prey on them and their young.
		The northern mockingbird is the state bird of Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee, as well as of Texas.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/NN/tbn1.html (767 words)

	NatureWorks - Northern Mockingbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The northern mockingbird can be found in most of the continental United States from southern Oregon through northern Utah to Newfoundland and south to Mexico.
		The northern mockingbird eats ants, beetles, grasshoppers, seeds and berries.
		The mockingbird was given its name because of its ability to mimic the calls of dozens of other bird species.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/mockingbird.htm (246 words)

	Mockingbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mockingbirds are a group of New World passerine birds best known for the habit of some species of mimicking the songs of other birds, often loudly and in rapid succession.
		Most species are tropical; the Northern Mockingbird is the species familiar throughout the United States and Canada.
		Genetic tests have shown that mockingbirds are most closely related to starlings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mockingbird (132 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Mimus polyglottos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Northern Mockingbird lives in a wide variety of natural and human-modified areas and is common in suburban areas and towns.
		Mockingbirds are often seen chasing large birds such as crows and hawks away from their nests.
		The Northern Mockingbird is common in appropriate habitat.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/birds/passeriformes/mpolyglottos.html (344 words)

	Northern Mockingbird
		Rosche (1979) stated that northern mockingbird is a permanent resident in the lower North Platte River Valley where it may have nested near Keystone in 1978.
		Most northern mockingbirds observed in the Platte River Valley are associated with habitats supporting dense shrub layer vegetation, especially in lowland forest.
		Rising (1974) considered northern mockingbird a common summer resident in short, open, woodlands in western Kansas where nests were placed in a variety of tree species.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/platte/species/mimupoly.htm (343 words)

	Northern Mockingbird Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The versatile Northern Mockingbird occurs in a wide range of open or partly open habitats across the continent from forest edge and pasture fencerows to tree clumps in the prairies and cactus deserts in the southwest.
		Mockingbirds are double or triple-brooded, and a pair that raised a brood per month in April, May, June, and July 1986 was reported from Sarasota County (Paul 1986).
		The Northern Mockingbird is a permanent resident and nests throughout the state south to Key West, absent only from the western Everglades.
	www.wildflorida.org /bba/NOMO.htm (466 words)

	Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The northern mockingbird is a medium-sized songbird measuring about 23 cm (about 9 in.) and weighing about 50 g (about 2 oz.), with longish legs and tail and a slightly curved bill.
		The mockingbird is monogamous, usually for the length of a breeding season, and occasionally mates for life.
		In the spring, mockingbirds can be seen performing their swift, acrobatic flights, male chasing female, often accompanied by the exchange of soft "hew" calls, repeatedly perching next to each other and taking off again.
	edis.ifas.ufl.edu /UW094 (1370 words)

	Learn About the Mockingbird at Wild Birds Forever
		Mockingbirds can be fiercely territorial during the mating season as they defend their nests and territories.
		Mockingbirds are long streamlined gray birds reaching up to 9 inches in length, with white undersides and flashy white wing patches and outer tail feathers.
		Mockingbirds require open grassy areas for their feeding, thick, thorny shrubs for hiding the nest and high perches where the male can sing and defend his territory.
	www.birdsforever.com /mock.html (349 words)

	Northern Mockingbird
		Northern Mockingbird: This bird breeds from northern California, eastern Nebraska, southern Ontario, and Maritime Canada southward.
		Northern Mockingbird: Three to five blue-green eggs, spotted with brown, are laid in a bulky cup of sticks and weed stems in a bush or low tree.
		Northern Mockingbird: This bird's song is a long series of musical and grating phrases, each repeated 3 or more times.
	identify.whatbird.com /obj/158/_/Northern_Mockingbird.aspx (830 words)

	Polyglotto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Failure of a free-living northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) to discriminate food rewards on the basis of number (1...
		The singing behavior of Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos): A dissertation in biology
		The family dynamics of parental care: Adult provisioning and nestling begging in the northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglo...
	interlingua.encyclopedia.st /Polyglotto (108 words)

	Species Profile: Northern Mockingbird by Richard Ditch
		Range: The Northern Mockingbird is found year round in the southern half of the lower 48 states and in the northeastern coastal states including Massachusetts.
		The Northern Mockingbird seems to delight in incorporating bits of the songs of neighboring birds into its own song; this is believed to be a demonstration of a male's fitness for breeding and a sign that the bird occupies a territory rich enough in resources to support such a diversity of other species.
		Mockingbirds are the most talented mimics in their family, and even incorporate mechanical sounds into their songs.
	www.photomigrations.com /articles/0210300.htm (746 words)

	eNature.com Nature Guides
		Mockingbirds are strongly territorial and, like a number of other birds, will attack their reflection in a window, hubcap, or mirror, at times with such vigor that they injure or kill themselves.
		At mating time, the male Northern Mockingbird becomes increasingly exuberant, flashing his wings as he flies up in an aerial display, or singing while flying from one song post to another.
		Mockingbirds require open grassy areas for their feeding; thick, thorny, or coniferous shrubs for hiding the nest; and high perches where the male can sing and defend his territory.
	www.enature.com /flashcard/show_flash_card.asp?recordNumber=BD0136 (184 words)

	The Northern Mockingbird
		Northern Mockingbirds are also mistaken for the Shrike, another flying companion.
		The mockingbird has a white patch and two white bars on each wing while the shrike has one bar of white stripe and no white patches.
		Female Northern Mockingbirds lay a clutch of 2-6 eggs that are anywhere from a pinkish white to a blue or green color with brown speckles.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/tropical_neotropical_birds/104075 (450 words)

	April Bird of the Month - Northern Mockingbird
		The northern mockingbird does, indeed, live year-round across the entire state.
		The mockingbird imitates other birds so expertly that sound spectrographs show the renditions to be exact duplicates, even to the high-pitched overtones inaudible to human ears.
		A famous mockingbird at Boston's Arnold Arboretum was heard to reproduce "39 bird songs, 50 bird calls, and the sounds of a frog and a cricket.
	www.passporttotexas.com /birds/apr.html (344 words)

	Birds, Familiar: Northern Mockingbird, Life Histories of North American Birds, A.C. Bent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While most mockingbird populations in the South appear to be largely stable (the writer is unable, for instance, to note any annual shifting of numbers in South Carolina), certain concentrations in parts of the southern range indicate that there may be a short migration in fall and an early return in spring.
		An instance of bigamy in the mockingbird is reported by Amelia R. Laskey, of Nashville, Tenn. She states that it is "a surprising situation in a species where both sexes are strong defenders of territory.
		A mockingbird living in the yard of the writer fought itself literally for days in the window of the cellar, which was almost on a level with the ground.
	birdsbybent.com /ch31-40/mockingb.html (8482 words)

	No Direction Home: Friday Bird Blogging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The northern mockingbird is the state bird for Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas.
		There was a mockingbird who lived outside a window of mine, many years ago, who must have spent quite some time in downtown Los Angeles, because he could really do a great impersonation of a car alarm.
		Posted by: F-Stop at April 22, 2005 12:14 PM There are mockingbirds that hang around the Austin airport parking lot that can do disturbingly good imitations of jet engines, in brief bursts...
	www.nodirectionhome.net /archives/2005/04/friday_bird_blo_3.html (258 words)

	Listen to the Mockingbird
		The Northern Mockingbird is a world-famous singer, considered finer even than the Nightingale of Europe (the one John Keats wrote about in his "Ode to a Nightingale").
		The male mockingbird sings a medley of songs belonging to other birds, repeating each phrase several times before moving on to the next.
		Law is on the side of love and the bird, for it is illegal to harm, harass, or remove the mockingbird.
	www.birdwatching.com /stories/mockingbird.html (1066 words)

	Northern Mockingbird
		The aggressive mockingbird is sometimes gallant in its hopeless attempts to defend its territory against hordes of invading, berry-loving cedar waxwings.
		The Northern Mockingbird is a conspicuous bird, slim and streamlined, with long legs.
		: The Northern Mockingbird is a creature of the edge, preferring open expanses bordered by dense shrubby cover--urban or suburban homes, parks, orange groves, hardwood or pine woods and farm areas.
	echotourism.com /birding/mocking.htm (192 words)

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		It was conceived in A species account of Northern samsung from Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Bird of the Week web site Today, the Northern nec has largely recovered.
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		ATTRACTING THE NORTHERN mockingbird.Compliments of Wild Birds Forever profit, charity, HPB, album, Phish Companion, Sharin in the Groove, Sharing in the Groove The movistar Foundation: A fan-based, non-profit organization producing an encyclopedic book on the rock Review and overview of the film as a learning tool.
	www.scambiorecensioni.it /ringtones/mockingbird.html (1093 words)

	Backyard Birding, Our Feathered Friends - Northern Mockingbird - Mimus polyglottos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Range: Breeds from northern California across the USA to Nova Scotia.
		We've been blessed to have a Northern Mockingbird calling our backyard home for two years now.
		He/she tend to be a bit aggressive towards other birds but gains many points for it's constant attacks on any squirrels passing through.
	www.slivoski.com /birding/birds/mockingbird.htm (128 words)

	BIRDNET: American (U. S.) State Birds
		Arkansas -- Mockingbird (Northern Mockingbird) - Mimus polyglottos
		Texas -- Mockingbird (Northern Mockingbird) - Mimus polyglottos
		Note: The Ring-necked Pheasant is known as the Common Pheasant outside of the U. S., though the AOU retains use of the name Ring-necked Pheasant at present.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /BIRDNET/CHECKLISTS/statebirds.html (404 words)

	Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird... on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		No luck with that, but I did get to see a Blackpoll Warbler (new for me), a horde of purple finches, and add this mockingbird to my photo lifelist.
		Very nice--I have a lot of trouble getting mockingbirds to hold still.
		Laura - he was pretty calm after the initial shock of seeing me. I just can't believe that this is the first time I've been able to get a decent shot of one.
	www.flickr.com /photos/martytdx/15713604 (373 words)

	IV Birds - Northern Mockingbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They present photographs, songs, identification tips, maps, and life history information for North American birds - including the Northern Mockingbird
		Mockingbird Fact Sheet - Nice photo and some little-known facts about the Northern Mockingbird displayed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife's "Nature" Web site.
		Northern Mockingbird - Informative page displayed by the Texas State Historical Association's "Handbook of Texas Online" Web site.
	www.imperial.cc.ca.us /birds/mocking.htm (154 words)

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