Northern Mockingbird Images

Northern Mockingbird Images, Facts and Information:

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  • Northern Mockingbirds are medium-sized with gray upperparts, lighter gray underparts, a pale eye lines, white chins and throats with gray-brown sub-malar streaks. Wings are gray-black with two white bars and have they have large white patches when spread. Tail is long, gray and edged with white. They have black bills and yellowish eyes.
  • Most Northern Mockingbirds are nonmigratory while some at the northern parts of their range do migrate. Northern Mockingbirds breed from northern California east to Nebraska, southern Ontario southward to southern Mexico and the West Indies. Found in city parks, farmlands, desert brush, residential areas and open country with thickets.
  • Northern Mockingbirds are omnivorous and they eat insects, arthropods, fruits, earthworms, small lizards, flowers, and insects. They breed in open areas, forest edges, grasslands with some trees, thickets, and desert shrublands.
  • Northern Mockingbirds lay 2 to 6 eggs which hatch in 12 to 13 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
  • A group of mockingbirds can be called a “echo”, “exactness” or “ridicule” of mockingbirds.
  • Northern Mockingbirds can live to be more than 14 years of age.

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