Northern Mockingbird - a unique bird.It received its name because of the ability to imitate the voices of animals, birds and even humans.
One farmer told how mockingbird almost brought to mind his pets.The bird built a nest in the bushes loach just next to the entrance to the house.Smart Ptah quickly learned cackle of a hen and easily imitated squeak a lost chicken than is given in the noisy excitement of hen.After a while the bird-presmeshnik mastered another sound: the whistle.That whistle is usually a farmer called the dog for a walk outside the farm.Hearing the call of the owner, the dog happily rushed to search for the owner, which at this time and the house is not there.Further more.He came up in March, and the Northern Mockingbird (bird apparently has a sense of humor) began to play the sounds of love and longing cat.On the clarion call echoed all the local cats, but they could not understand, where their calling lady love, and where she was hiding.
Mockingbird - Bird talented
Scientists believe that mockingbird - the songbird in the world.His own, nepodrazhatelnoe, singing her very nice: the rhythmic cycles with up to 6 colors, can pour an hour.Mockingbird sings so diverse that it is often mistaken for the singing of a chorus of voices.Only professionals can quickly understand that the only mockingbird sings.
bird mockingbird, a photo of which are listed in this article to mimic better than many of its counterparts.Once the observers heard ten minutes mockingbird singing reproduced 32 birds.All in all, the repertoire of "average" Mockingbird about 200 songs.Interestingly, the mockingbirds live well in captivity, and their "repertoire" is even larger.There are individuals who can grunt, grunt, and even mimic the sound of a hair dryer and operating the mixer.
Who is the mockingbird?
Bird belongs to the family of passerines.Interesting fact: he flies small arcs and during the flight the tail fold-open exactly as it is done warblers.And on the ground jumps exactly as thrush.It turns out that even the movement Mockingbird copy other birds.Mockingbird friendly and aggressive at the same time.These passerine birds may settle near houses and farms on sandy clearings in the bushes among fields.Sometimes the bird settled in the forest.Mockingbird becoming aggressive with the advent of the chicks.At that time, he attacks everyone (even people), who are trying to get closer to its addition of scraps and leaves the nest, inside lined with a soft cloth (wherever he finds them?).These small grayish-brown bird with a white belly and almost black, curved beak down extremely dangerous at the time of the attack, though not grow more than 25 centimeters.
Where does the mockingbird?
Mockingbirds - Americans by birth, they are spread from Canada to Mexico and the Caribbean, but most birds love the area between Florida and Texas.These states, along with Mississippi and Arkansas, according to its national heritage mockingbirds.They devoted even lullabies.Family mockingbirds has about a dozen "relatives": burospinny, tropical, Bahamas, Patagonian, etc.The most "gifted" ones - Northern Mockingbird, referred to in this article.
