Northern Mockingbird Photo Gallery
Adult
Medium-sized slender songbird with a long tail. Adults are grayish above and whitish below with two white wingbars.
© Jay McGowan / Macaulay LibraryNew York, December 07, 2016Adult
Medium-sized slender songbird with a long tail. Adults are grayish above and whitish below. Mimics songs of other songbirds.
© Jay McGowan / Macaulay LibraryNew York, December 07, 2016Adult
Very vocal: song is a long series of phrases, with each phrase repeated 2–6 times before shifting to a new sound. Many sounds are mimicked. Both males and females sing.
© Eric Liner / Macaulay LibrarySantiago de Cuba, April 01, 2007Not all videos have soundJuvenile
Juveniles have spotted breasts.
© Davey Walters / Macaulay LibraryMassachusetts, September 03, 2016Adult
Note distinctive slender shape with long tail. The large white wing patches visible in flight fold up into a small white mark when the bird is perched.
© Larry Arbanas / Macaulay LibraryTexas, May 02, 2008Not all videos have soundAdult
White wing patches are distinctive.
© Gordon Dimmig / Macaulay LibraryPennsylvania, March 23, 2013Adult
Often runs and hops along the ground. Found alone or in pairs year-round.
© Mary Keleher / Macaulay LibraryMassachusetts, April 02, 2017Adults
When defending territory boundaries, rival birds fly toward each other, land near the boundary, and face off, silently hopping from one side to another. Eventually, one bird retreats and the other chases it a short ways.
© Timothy Barksdale / Macaulay LibraryTexas, April 23, 1997Not all videos have soundAdult
Usually sits conspicuously on high vegetation, fences, eaves, or telephone wires. Found in in towns, suburbs, backyards, parks, forest edges, and open land at low elevations.
© Franklin Diaz / Macaulay LibraryGeorgia, May 05, 2017Adult
Both sexes help build the nest, with the male starting several nests and the female choosing one and then finishing it, lining it with grasses, rootlets and other soft vegetation. This video has no audio.
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Species in This Family
Mockingbirds and Thrashers(Order: Passeriformes, Family: Mimidae)
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