#Mimus polyglottos

[occasionallybirds]

Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

April 4, 2024

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[ridiculousbirdfaces]

This Mockingbird is VERY serious about his berries! by Anne Fraser Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

[podartists]

Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

Plate II | Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (1891)

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Birds That Sing at Night

Northern Mockingbird - Mimus polyglottos

Aminda Jayasundara / 500px / Getty Images

[datubooty]

"MOCKINGBIRD'S LESSON" from FIELD NOTES, a zine I made for my bird simp poems out of paper, photos, tape, and Birds & Blooms.

Many of my neighborhood mockers went quiet in late April, so I told myself a story about it that's admittedly more projection than ornithological fact.

Poem text under the cut:

Noon is more still in the spring because love makes the mockingbird lose – not forget – all long-hundred of her songs Can you image? Seasons of sermons Dolloped out from high phone lines then one day the gift that defines you just vanishes Do you think stuck between hoarseness or silence she frets over whether her rasping is lovely? Or do her chicks and her groom reassure her at night in the nest that what separates love song from noise is the love, not the song? Do you think she finds it cruel when they are what brings her talent to its knees? Or does behind her breastbone warm because she sees how adoration lets her guide another sound into her throat, one all her own? Do you think she enjoys it when her voice is quiet Or does her head become a fizzy bottle shaken Until summer bursts with pent-up song? Do you think – you could love me again in the summer despite us not dancing to mockingbird time? Or have you not noticed I am already quiet for you?

[theoneandonlyblob]

hrmm I think I may photo dump a small amount of critters

From left to right

First row: Fledgeling northern mockingbird, Florida predatory stinkbug, forest scaly cricket

Second row: Mourning Dove pair, groundhog, northern cardinal

Third row: Northern Mockingbird, a pair of bluebirds, which checked out the birdhouse we put up but didn’t actually nest in 😔, house finch

Fourth row: Eastern cottontail and a Carolina wren that vibed on our deck for a bit

[harleycrittercorner]

Excuse me, are you aware that you are an orb?

Northern Mockingbird

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Northern Mockingbird

Photo: Mick Thompson

"This bird's famous song, with its varied repetitions and artful imitations, is heard all day during nesting season (and often all night as well). Very common in towns and cities, especially in southern areas, the Mockingbird often seeks insects on open lawns. When running in the open it may stop every few feet and partly spread its wings, flashing the white wing patches. Mockingbirds are bold in defense of their nests, attacking cats and even humans that venture too close."

- Audubon Field Guide

[spacefinch]

The mimic of many tongues

(That’s what the Northern Mockingbird’s scientific name, Mimus polyglottos, translates to.)

[atamagaitai]

northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) by Kyle Eaton

[occasionallybirds]

Northern Mockingbird fledgling (Mimus polyglottos)

June 12, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[rjalker]

Fledgeling mockingbird being attended by a parent.

These photos are public domain because I took them and I said so.

[ID: Four photos showing a fledgeling mockingbird, a young mockingbird with all its feathers, but is still being cared for by its parents, in a stretch of short grass with taller grass filling the background. Both mockingbirds are light grey with white bellies, and darker wings, with the parent being larger. The first photo shows the fledgeling crouching in the grass, pointing to the left, with its body lowered. The second photo shows the fledgeling with its back to the camera to show the white under its long tail, while the parent stands in front of it, with its mouth open. The next photo shows the parent motion blurred as they run off to the left, leaving the fledgeling continuing to crouch in place. The last photo shows the fledgeling looking off to the left where its parent is out of frame, its mouth open as it waits for more food. End ID.]

Edit. Hey wait. This video might be short enough to put here...

[ID: A video clip of the two birds above, with the fledgeling giving short, high-pitched calls as it begs for food. The only other sounds are the wind and cars driving past. End ID.]

[nickbutnodick]

i saw so many mockingbirds today my bird app was like, "what the fuck there is no way you saw that many mockingbirds. explain."

[frogshunnedshadows]

Mockingbird.

[datubooty]

i love it when they do the thing

[herpsandbirds]

I like it when birds have pants, like the booted eagle. Can we get some birds with pants?

When I think of birds with pants, I think of raptors mostly. Let's find some birds with pants...

Red-necked Falcon (Falco chicquera), with prey, family Falconidae, Changalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India

photograph by Sriram Reddy

Shaheen Falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator), family Falconidae, found across South and parts of East Asia

This is a non-migratory subspecies of the Peregrine Falcon.

photograph by @sambathsubbaiah

Harris’s Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), family Accipitridae, being chased by a Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), family Mimidae, Santa Clara Ranch, TX, USA

photograph by @hector_astorga_photography