Sentences with phrase «northern mockingbirds»

Christine Stracey, Assistant professor of biology at Westminster College «I thought the cats probably really hammered them when they were fledglings,» said Stracey, a former University of Florida doctoral student in a UF press release about her study of Northern mockingbirds, «but when they were in the nests, I didn't really expect the cats to be a huge problem.

But if, as she suggests, cats are a «huge problem,» then how to explain the fact — as Stracey notes in the very same press release — Northern mockingbirds have proven «able to not only live with us, but do really well living with us» [and our cats]?

Northern mockingbirds on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville recognise people who disturb their nests after only two brief encounters.

A few years later, northern mockingbird, another relative latecomer to our local avian community, was added to the list.

These range from familiar species such as the northern mockingbird — whose Latin name translates as «many - tongued mimic» — to exotic ones like the superb lyrebird that put in a star turn in David Attenborough's The Life...

His painting of the northern mockingbird shows a nest attacked by a rattlesnake.

Irked that the music in the trees had all but ceased, a ladies» club called Hui Manu imported the Northern mockingbird, the Japanese white - eye, the Japanese bush warbler, and at least a dozen other kinds of songbirds in the 1930s.

Pictured above: left to right: James Prosek, Spring at Wave Hill, 2018, courtesy of the artist and Singer Wajahat, New York, NY; Peter Morgan, Debbie the Double - crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus), 2014; Marvin the Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglotos), 2014 — 2018, courtesy of the artist.

• Mourning dove (4) • Red - bellied woodpecker (1) • Downy woodpecker (2) • Blue jay (6) • Black - capped chickadee (2) • White - breasted nuthatch (2) • American Robin (32) • Northern mockingbird (3) • European starling (15) • Song sparrow (1) • White - throated sparrow (6) • Dark - eyed junco (36) • Northern cardinal (4) • House sparrow (25)

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Preferred habitat: along streams, edges of woods + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: deciduous + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay + + + + Light conditions: dappled shade to partial sun + + + + Plant spacing: 5 to 6 feet + + + + Wildlife value: the fruit is a favorite of many birds; in summer its thick foliage provides good escape and shelter cover, as well as nesting sites, hark often used in nest building; fruit attracts the following birds: Mourning Dove; Red - bellied and Red - headed Woodpeckers, Eastern Kingbird; Blue Jay, Great Crested Flycatcher, Tufted Titmouse, Mockingbird, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, American Robin, Wood, Hermit, Gray - cheeked, and Swanson's Thrushes, Eastern Bluebird, Red - eyed Virea, Yellow - breasted Chat, House and Fox Sparrows, Orchard and Northern Orioles, Scarlet and Summer Tanagers, Cardinal, Purple Finch, American Goldfinch, Rufous - sided Towhee