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a feathered plagiarist that steals every sound and somehow makes the theft sound better
means A North American songbird famed for imitating the calls of other birds, animals, and even mechanical sounds, weaving them into its own relentless song.
from A plain English compound of 'mocking' (from the verb 'mock,' meaning to mimic or ridicule, itself from Old French 'mocquer,' to deride) and 'bird.' The name simply describes what the creature does: it mocks — that is, imitates — the voices around it. The genus name 'Mimus' carries the same idea straight from Latin, where it means 'mimic.'
- playlist size
- can learn over 200 distinct songs
- impersonation range
- mimics frogs, car alarms, and other birds
- night shift
- unmated males sing all night to advertise
- state pride
- official bird of five U.S. states
- escalating remix
- repeats each phrase several times before switching
atticus finch's mockingbird — character in harper lee's 'to kill a mockingbird' (1960), the innocent symbol of the novel
northern mockingbird — mimus polyglottos, state bird of 5 us states, mimics 200+ other bird species