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PHOTO BY SKIP WILLITS |
Catbird got your tongue? A gray, robin-sized songbird with a thin bill and a long, twitchy tail, the Northern mockingbird belongs to the Mimidae family, a group of American avian species that includes thrashers and catbirds. Its scientific name is Mimus polyglottos, which, not surprisingly, comes from the Greek words for “mimic” and “many-tongued.”
Suburbanite. Mockingbirds thrive in open grassy areas with thick, thorny shrubs where they can hide their nests. They frequently live in the suburbs and love to hang out in manmade gardens, where they gobble up destructive insects. In the South, they eat seeds, fruits and berries year-round.
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