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Yellow-breasted chatting mockingbird

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"Marcetich, James (NIH/NLM)"

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:44:48 -0400

For several mornings, a neighborhood mockingbird has been performing
yellow-breasted chat-like flight displays from the top of a street-side
telephone pole.  This morning I realized that he was also vocalizing like a
male yellow-breasted chat (interspersed with his very loud and enthusiastic
repertoire of other bird vocalizations).  The vocal mimicking is fairly
typical, but do mockingbirds also imitate the behavior of other birds?

James Marcetich
Colesville, Maryland