The Northern Mockingbird, also known as the anti-tongued bird, is a bird that imitates sounds, and a male northern mockingbird can learn about 200 calls in his lifetime.
Northern mockingbirds often chirp endlessly, even at night. It has been observed that the northern mockingbird is more commonly known at night when the moon is full moon. It's amazing, there is a wood!
Since the Northern Mockingbird is one of the most common birds in the United States, all 5 existing states have named it a state bird. South Carolina also used it as a state bird between 1939 and 1948.
There are two interesting things about the Northern Mockingbird that are worth mentioning. The first interesting thing has to do with a great book. American writer Harper Lee published his novel To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, which won that year's Pulitzer Prize. The literal translation of the title of the book should be "To Kill an Anti-Tongue Bird", and the domestic translation is "Kill a Mockingbird", in fact, the two birds are different, the robin is Robin. A famous quote from the book mentions another bird: "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." It can be seen that Robin, Mockingbird, and Blue Jay have different meanings in American culture, and interested students can continue to study Ha.
The second interesting thing is even more compelling, related to a great theory. It is said that the Northern Mockingbird contributed to the formation of the theory of evolution. In 1836, Darwin returned from a voyage around the world, and he handed over a large number of animal and plant specimens he brought back to the masters of the British zoological and botanical circles at that time to sort out and identify. Darwin was inspired by the results of ornithologist John Gould's identification of mockingbird specimens from the Galapagos Islands as three separate but similar endemic species. He believes that all three species are actually from the same species of mockingbird from the South American continent, which has evolved into different species that live on three different islands near the continent. Inspired by this inspiration, Darwin began to challenge the then accepted theory of "species invariance" and, many years later, published the theory of evolution.
The Northern Mockingbird lives mainly in the United States, southeastern Canada, and Mexico, and even extends into Alaska.
(Photo above at Rock Creek Park, Washington)
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