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20 years ago

I took my high school biology students on a nature walk and one student captured this image of a bird that had been sitting on a power line. He wanted to know what kind of bird it is. As it was singing, I can find it's taxonomy down to "songbird" but beyond that I am stuck. Help?

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Day_By_Day
20 years ago
Looks like a good ol' Mockingbird to me.
snakeguybill
20 years ago
I agree with day by day. Sure looks like a mockingbird to me. The bands across the wings is a good field mark, and I know that almost every time I look out my window, I see one of them hanging around my NC home.
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theinfamousj
Original Author
20 years ago
Mockingbird! I never would have thought of that (or perhaps I would, eventually). Instead, I kept going round-and-round in my mind about a blue jay because that was the song it was pelting out. In threes. Which should have been my clue. But the video clip I have just has three jay calls. And it sure didn't look like a jay.

Thank you both so very, very much.

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