It’s time at last to discuss the most celebrated songbird on the continent: the northern mockingbird. As Audubon put it, “the extent of its compass, the great brilliancy of execution, are unrivaled.

In an accessible volume, Hoose (The Race to Save the Lord God Bird) chronicles the scientific and cultural interconnectedness of humankind and versatile avian songsmith the northern mockingbird. The ...

Researchers at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and McGill University suspect that inconsistent climates may play a role in the complexity of bird ...

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Recently, I heard what I thought were both a Tufted Titmouse and a Carolina Wren singing nearby. Then I discovered the sounds were coming from two different mockingbirds instead. Any explanation why ...

It seems appropriate that the songwriter of the classic “Listen to the Mockingbird” (1885) used a pseudonym. For “Mockingbird,” Septimus Winner became Alice Hawthorne, one of his aliases. The northern ...

Q. Why do mockingbirds mimic the songs of other birds? Are there any other bird mimics? Can birds reproduce the sounds of other animals? A. Mimicry is a common trait of the northern mockingbird, which ...

audio: Researchers at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and McGill University suspect that inconsistent climates may play a role in the complexity of ...