I was a bit concerned when a reader wrote to inform me that she was taking up arms against one of our local wildlife species. No, it wasn’t anything dangerous or smelly, like a rattlesnake, killer ...

I’m not sure I’d want to live in a world without the ebullient song of the northern mockingbird. But the email I get from readers at best seeks hints on how to stop them from singing all night long.

According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a male Mockingbird may learn up to 200 songs in its lifetime. Like the Nightingale, it is the lonely bachelor, the unmated male, who sings all night, often ...

DEAR JOAN: This spring, as last year, I am blessed to have a mockingbird hanging out around my front yard, singing his little heart out in search of a mate. Last year, I saw him do something that ...

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.

Each year around mid-July, woods and fields and our neighborhoods become noticeably quieter as most songbirds curtail or completely stop singing until next spring. There may be several reasons for ...

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The northern mockingbird has been the state bird of Texas since 1927 when the state legislature declared, “WHEREAS, Ornithologists, musicians, educators and Texans in all walks of life unite in ...

Listen to the mockingbird. This bird makes a lot of noise. He copies all sorts of other bird songs, repeating, repeating, over and over, sometimes for hours. People must have thought this behavior was ...