Found Friday: Name This Bird

[alycewilson]

About a week ago, Kung Fu Panda and I walked to the park. (Or rather, I walked to the park and pushed him in the stroller.) Most of my pictures and videos were, naturally, of him; however, on the way home, we walked by some beautiful flowers. I still like to photograph nature's beauty as I find it; I just don't get around to posting them very often

Comments

[creature_girl08]

I wish I could see the bird. But it sure sounds like some of the ones we have around here. Very pretty!

[alycewilson]

A friend tells me it's a mockingbird. Don't know how well you can see this picture, because it's smallish, but this is what she says they look like:

http://blog.clarkpest.com/Portals/31616/images//mockingbird3.jpg

I think she's right. This video on YouTube has a better shot of a mockingbird and two minutes of sound:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMpe34Aign4

[creature_girl08]

How funny, from your discription of how it could sing like other birds I wondered if it could be a mockingbird but without knowing what one looked like I did not want to just guess. The links were great so thanks for sending those along.

[alycewilson]

No problem! I'm really glad now that I got it on video; its song was beautiful.

[i_smell_apples]

Whatever it is, it sure is pretty! Sadly the only bird mimics which are coming to me are lyre birds and bower birds so I am not very helpful. The only zoology subjects I did were Australian Wildlife ones!

[alycewilson]

A friend from this area of the Mid-Atlantic suggests that it is a mockingbird. I think she's right.

[i_smell_apples]

Hehe! He mocks not mimics! XD

[alycewilson]

He's making fun of the other birds.

[sharya]

I've always wondered about mockingbirds! Nice to hear one - we don't have those around here.

Most of our "song" birds that I hear are either robins, or jay-type birds (magpies, blue jays, grey jays, etc). They shriek rather unpleasantly. The crows have a lovely sound to them, as long as they don't think you're an enemy. It's quite conversational really, but they aren't great to have around the other song-birds.

[alycewilson]

We had a lot of crows in my hometown. They sound like home to me.

[angelic_mystic]

I think it may be a mocking bird. I love to just sit and listen to them.

[alycewilson]

I think you're right.