This past Friday, after leaving Cupsogue where my twitch for the Wilson’s Plover had ended in success I decided to head back over to...
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We can start first with what catbirds are not. Catbirds are not the unfortunate result of unwise experiments with radioactivity. Catbirds are also not...
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Harper Lee famously wrote that it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird. Because they don’t do nothing but sing for us all day long,...
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Here in the southeast we have three Mimids of three distinct groups all present more or less throughout the year. The Northern Mockingbird is...
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On a recent visit to Wave Hill, a public garden in the Bronx, I was amazed by how confiding the resident Northern Mockingbirds were....
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As I have probably already mentioned, I was in southern California over the holidays. Before I headed out there from my home in New...
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Pity the poor mockingbird. They are despised for singing all night, chided for being a bully at the feeders, and killed in the title...
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When leaving the East Pond of Jamaica Bay on Saturday we came across this sunning Gray Catbird. At first glance we thought it was...
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