MOCKINGBIRD Have You Heard...

by Lianne Schneider

Title

MOCKINGBIRD Have You Heard...

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

Another in my bird tapestry series - small prints would make a lovely grouping for a garden room.

Please forgive my inability to respond to all comments in a timely fashion. Believe me when I say that I appreciate each and every one of them more than you could know and I will do my best over time to visit each of you and catch up with your work too. I�m so very grateful for the constant support I�ve received from all of you.

FROM: Allaboutbirds.com

If you�ve been hearing an endless string of 10 or 15 different birds singing outside your house, you might have a Northern Mockingbird in your yard. These slender-bodied gray birds apparently pour all their color into their personalities. They sing almost endlessly, even sometimes at night, and they flagrantly harass birds that intrude on their territories, flying slowly around them or prancing toward them, legs extended, flaunting their bright white wing patches.

COOL FACTS:
It�s not just other mockingbirds that appreciate a good song. In the nineteenth century, people kept so many mockingbirds as cage birds that the birds nearly vanished from parts of the East Coast. People took nestlings out of nests or trapped adults and sold them in cities such as Philadelphia, St. Louis, and New York, where, in 1828, extraordinary singers could fetch as much as $50.
Northern Mockingbirds continue to add new sounds to their repertoires throughout their lives. A male may learn around 200 songs throughout its life.
The Northern Mockingbird frequently gives a "wing flash" display, where it half or fully opens its wings in jerky intermediate steps, showing off the big white patches. No one knows why it does this, but it may startle insects, making them easier to catch. On the other hand, it doesn�t often seem to be successful, and different mockingbird species do this same display even though they don�t have white wing patches.
Northern Mockingbirds sing all through the day, and often into the night. Most nocturnal singers are unmated males, which sing more than mated males during the day, too. Nighttime singing is more common during the full moon.
Northern Mockingbirds typically sing from February through August, and again from September to early November. A male may have two distinct repertoires of songs: one for spring and another for fall.
The female Northern Mockingbird sings too, although usually more quietly than the male does. She rarely sings in the summer, and usually only when the male is away from the territory. She sings more in the fall, perhaps to establish a winter territory.
The oldest Northern Mockingbird on record was 14 years and 10 months old.

First verse of a golden oldie some of you may remember:

Mock (yeah) ing (yeah) bird (yeah)
Yeah, yeah
Mockingbird everybody, have you heard?
(Have you heard?)
He's gonna buy me a Mockingbird
Oh, if that Mockingbird don't sing
He's gonna buy me a diamond ring
And if that diamond ring don't shine
He's gonna surely, break this heart of mine...

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