This photo provided by the University of Florida, taken April 19, 2009, shows a mockingbird grazing University of Florida biology major Devon Duffy, in Gainesville, Fla., in an attempt to drive her ...

Mockingbirds are on the attack! One man told me he couldn’t get to his mailbox without a mockingbird dive-bombing him and screeching in his ears. Some students at Lone Star College-Kingwood report ...

It was an odd scene. A northern mockingbird, with a little help from a Baltimore oriole, continually dive-bombing a red-tailed hawk. Mockingbirds are about 10 inches long; orioles about eight inches.

Most of Georgia’s year-round songbirds, such as robins, bluebirds and cardinals, establish and aggressively defend territories during the spring and summer nesting season. Come autumn, however, with ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida study shows cats are the dominant predator to mockingbird eggs and nestlings in urban areas, prompting conservationists to urge pet owners to keep ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The birds are watching. They know who you are. And they will attack. Nope, not Hitchcock. It's science. University of Florida biologists are reporting that mockingbirds recognize ...

WASHINGTON — Mockingbirds may look pretty much alike to people, but they can tell us apart and are quick to react to folks they don’t like. Birds rapidly learn to identify people who have previously ...