Mimic Thrushes

Gray Catbird 126kB (4:55 AM on June 18, 1997 outside my bedroom window).
Dumetella carolinensis

• Notice the Song Sparrow 40kB (1:44.6-1:46.2); compare with the original 50kB.
• Also in this song: Blue Jay 23kB; compare with the original 21kB.

Another skilled imitator: three imitations from a single song:

• Carolina wren 35kB (secs. 17.8-19.2); compare with the original 50kB.
• Towhee 27kB (secs. 25.0-26.1); compare with the original 40kB.
• Wood Thrush 19kB; compare with the original 35kB.

Meow! 17kB
Long Island, May 1996.

Photo of catbird feeding young, taken by Yuri Elson, Long Island, July 2007.

Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottos

etc., etc.

Some mockingbird imitations (from this one song):

• Blue Jay scolding 49kB
• Blue Jay 38kB; compare with the original 21kB.
• Wood Thrush 28kB; compare with the original 42kB.
• Carolina Wren 31kB; compare with the original 50kB.
• Common Flicker 32kB; compare with the original 17kB.

Another mockingbird:

• Digital Alarm Clock 46kB.

Another excellent imitator:

• Blue Jay 32kB
• Carolina Wren 36kB; compare with the original 50kB.
• Carolina Wren 43kB; compare with the original 95kB
• Phoebe 61kB; compare with the original 57kB
• Robin scolding 73kB; compare with the original 61kB
• Tufted Titmouse 24kB; compare with the original 30kB.

Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum Five consecutive records from one bird (the upsy-daisy bird) Brown Thrasher176kB Brown Thrasher167kB Brown Thrasher164kB Brown Thrasher182kB Brown Thrasher153kB Long Island, May 2000

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