A Master of Song: Northern Mockingbird
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- A master of mimicry lets loose. You never know what’ll come out of this bird’s beak next.
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What’s happening: With hundreds of songs in his repertoire and the stamina to sing for hours on end, the male Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) specializes in vocal excess. A masterful mimic, he mixes a variety of songs borrowed from other species with his own material to defend his territory. His capacity to improvise is so extensive that he’ll sing many of his song types only once a season. The overall effect is that listeners never quite know what will come out of his beak next-and for mockingbirds, it's variety that counts.
Videographer: Eric Liner. This video is archived at the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library, ML466291.
Last night I learned that these guys sometimes like to sing VERY LOUDLY in the middle of the night. It's a surreal experience to hear a single bird in the distance cycling through dozens of different songs when it's pitch black out and otherwise dead quiet. Makes it sound super loud compared to during the day too.
In the news today on National Geographic it talked about song birds are dying. I’m a night owl myself so mockingbirds don’t bother me in fact I love them and they don’t come around every year. Bedridden so they give me a little bit of comfort, they are the jazz musicians of the bird world. Please don’t hurt any bird they have a hard time
I used to hear these in the early morning hours growing up and haven’t heard them in years. I miss them terribly and had a feeling they were going away. The world is changing and not for the better…very sad. Beautiful birds.
Got a bunch of them here in texas
@@alexishenderson5060 where in Texas? My family lives there but I never go anymore
"I’m a night owl myself so mockingbirds don’t bother me" Lucky for you they sometimes sing in the middle of the night too 😂
Stray cats are a big issue.
The one that lives around me belts it out sun up to sundown. One time he mixed in a crow and I could of sworn I heard a car alarm once. Magnificent birds. Love 'em.
Same with the one who lives in my tree. It also adds in Osprey noises and other birds of prey who live on my area.
0:29 i love how it bursts into a higher octave
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Just got woken up at 2am by one of these birds. Had to know what kind of bird had all these different songs. Mildly annoyed, but glad I looked up this video. Now I know how cute that little bird is singing their heart out, outside my window. Thank you for the songs, little one.
Same predicament, 3 in the morning for me. I was whistling back to it. It mimicked for a sec & continued with its routine.
Wow, where do you live?
Only annoying raven and Crows in my city 😂
Same here, found out last night that mockingbirds sometimes will just randomly sing in the middle of the night. It's beautiful but also kind of creepy to just hear one bird going off when it's otherwise dead quiet at night, not even cicadas. Maybe they're mimicking frog song or something like that.
I love mockingbirds, but we had one when I was a kid that would sing all night long outside our window. You wanted to yell outside give it a rest! This particular one tormented a cat we had at the time. It had a vendetta on this cat and it was hilarious.
We have a mockingbird that starts up outside our bedroom window around 1:00 am and can go on for hours. My husband finally resorted to using the garden hose to spray the tree he was in to convince him to relocate :-). It will be better when we shut the windows and turn on the a.c.!
According to scientists, these all-night singers are usually young males without a mate or old ones who lost their mate and they are desperately singing to find their sweetheart.
I just love birds.
Who doesn't
❤THIS LOVELY MOCKING BIRD GIVES THE VIBES OF PEACEFUL QUITE TRANQUIL MORNINGS IN A FOREST WHERE IT CHIRPS HAPPILY WITHOUT ANY INTRUDERS❤❤❤
I’ve lived here almost all my life, and learned about the state bird of Texas as a little turd, but for the first time ever, at 30 years old, I sat and watched in awe as the mockingbird went through it’s little ocd routine of song.
I could t believe I never really appreciated it before.
I’ve for a long time thought about the calls of the grackle and wondered how they sound so... metallic and robotic.
Strange and awesome.
I live in SW VA now. And I LOVE mocking birds. So many different types of birds out here love it.
It's like a wicked remix! Have one singing outside my shop and I love it. I could see how it could get annoying if constant, but damn I love how many songs they sing and with so much Zeal!
I love when they imitate the Blue Jay's distinctive little screech lol
I’m glad yall seem to love them..I can’t stand it..keeps me awake all night
I have 2 in my backyard building a nest! I can’t wait for the babies! Such pretty and cute birds 💕💕
Have a few at my Arkansas country home and they are also our state bird.I like them alot with their wings spread 2 show their white feathers and of course the songs which are numerous.I do see them harass cardinals and bluebirds but no harm.Trying 2 protect food but they won't hurt them.
Loved listening to thus bird when we lived in Kew Gardens Queens, N Y
One of these beautiful birds really tricked me. It had learned to make a meow sound. I heard the noise and it was near a tree, I walked toward the tree expecting to find a kitten but instead a mocking bird was on the side of the tree. I just laughed. Silly birdie!
Love to hear them sign
Mockingbirds are so wonderful!
No, they are not. They are nuiscant pests.
Love this little show-off!
I saw one by myself mimicking an eagle sound in an attempt to ward off a cat from getting close to nest
Reminds me of our own Old Word song thrush and nightingale as well.
I think i have one or two of these little guys in the tree outside my window. They've been singing every night around 1am for the past couple weeks.
Love the mockingbirds song!!
Beautiful! Thanks!👍
Wow What a nice voice!
Hush little baby don't you cry
Thanks to this video, I was able to identify that We have one in our neighborhood atm, pretty close to my house, and as awesome as it sounds, the bird stays up all night just singing it's heart out. Been doing it for it past 2 weeks. I can see why people want to shoot it, as sad as it sounds. It's kinda annoying tbh, and I'm now going to Google and find out why it's staying up all night singing. And it's not a full moon, so it can't be that...
Every year around the end of June, I am not sure but it may be at the time of a full moon, the mocking birds seem to go all night long and repeat the call of every bird in the neighborhood. What is happening then. Many years ago I was in the lead in a golf tournament when the bird sitting on the ministers antenna keeping me awake all night. I went mad about 4:30 am and as I was tiptoeing up to the corner of my house ion nothing but my underpants, with a full moon, and a BB pistol in my hand aimed for the kill shot THE GOOD MINISTER CAME OUT HIS DOOR TO GET HIS NEWSPAPER!! Just said "good morning James" and quickly went in saving the birds life and the little sanity I had left.
I was just reading that it's the un-mated males that do the nocturnal singing. I guess they have pent-up frustration!
@@LyndaGene it sometimes sounds like they're having a party gallivanting all around town all night, so like a stag maybe😆
I've read that they like to nest in shrubbery, and around here, as soon as night falls, shrubbery is like Fort Rats. Rats which of course will eat just about anything, and as mockingbird eggs sound like a nice little appetizer for the nights feasting, i have a theory it may be some kind of defensive behavior against nighttime nest predation.
I have also heard one switch to doing the alert thing at night (where they start doing the same kind of chirping but furiously at twice the speed and twice the volume) when it apparently spotted some kind of danger; the otherwise languid sleepy nighttime chirping maybe indicates "not dead yet and all quiet on the front"
I had this experience too as a child. I remember my dad yelling out the window give it a rest!
11:59 California time. Mockingbird sigimg like crazy 31 years old never experienced it before. It just started up about 10-15 minutes ago. Thank you youtube for clearing my superstition haha
On the coast ive heard them imitating sea gulls lol
I lived in a neighborhood with a golf course for a bit, and "our" mockingbird did a very good sound of someone starting a push lawnmower in with his other stolen songs! Sadly, for the first time in 20 years on our little farm, we had no mockingbirds at all. Dear God, what have we done?
Perhaps they'll come back? The last two years my suburban mid-Atlantic neighborhood was short of them (but hawks were all over the place). This spring, the neighborhood has lots of mockingbirds singing. : ) One was singing next door, but seems to have flown off down the street.
@@marysueeasteregg I love this. I am late to this, but I hope the mockingbirds came back ❤️.
The bird chatter outside my window sure perked up after playing this clip. Finches, thrushes, quail, doves and warblers - I don't think I hear robins.
So, I just cued this up on my porch, with my cat on my lap, and it SO unsettled her as she tried so hard to figure out how my iPhone was doing that. I love mockingbirds. She WANTS them. 😅
I love them so much!
Why? They are extremely annoying.
@@willp.8120 Hahaha - holy shit! You must be one miserable SOB. You remind me of the hater who said disparaging things about my Golden Retriever puppy!
I have one of these in my yard that does a car unlocking
thats so cool
Love it! 💗
Lovely thank you
Can Mocking birds mimic any sound like Lyrebirds?
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Does anyone know what that other whistle is? It’s the one that is sounding off somewhere off camera near the beginning of the video. A soft low whistle.
Could be a Pigeon, could be a Loon. Not sure though
I hate how hard it was to find an actual mocking bird's song and not Eminem
Nice !!
it's just freestyling up there. do you, little guy
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I hate this damn bird !!!! Singing all night ! It’s the most annoying thing ever
Annoying birds. I can't stand them. Those of you who like listening to these disturbers of the peace are odd.