Seems to me I learned from Phil DuMont when I was a beginner( 1951)
that you can recognize the Mimic thrushes by:
no repeats------------------ catbird
two or three repeats-------- brown thrasher
six or seven repeats-----------mockingbird
It's always worked pretty well for me with the eastern mimics.
David Pierce
Speicher, James (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
> Kevin Caldwell wrote:
> I'd swear to all ends that I'm hearing a great crested flycatcher
>around my home, but don't think they could be here and calling this early.
>
> Janet Millenson wrote:
> I had the exact same experience a few years ago. The apparent
>out-of-season flycatcher turned out to be a very talented mockingbird.
>
> Ben Weinstein wrote:
> I've had the exact same problem... After a half hour i did
> find a northern mockingbird doing a fantastic impression of both a
>Great Crested, and a brown thrasher.
> ************************************************
> Isn't it true that mockingbirds will clue you in to their masquerade
>by the fact that they will repeat a phrase 6 or 7 times, before shifting to
>another song for 6 or 7 repeats, shift again for 6 to 7 repetitions, etc.,
>etc. and finally coming back to the "original" song? At least that's what
>i've found to be the case. Isn't this mentioned in the newer guides? I
>believe I saw it is in my Robbins guide years and years ago.
>
> Jim Speicher
> Jspeicher-at-niaid.nih.gov
> Rockville @work :(
> Broad Run_S. FRED Co @home :)
>
>
> |