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Some birds sing at night. These include owls, mockingbirds, whippoorwills, and nightingales. Birds also sing simply because ...
The most renowned vocal mimics in the bird world include mockingbirds, starlings, mynahs, marsh warbler, lyrebirds, bowerbirds, scrub-birds and African robin-chats. Starlings in the Shetland ...
The ornithologist John Gould, to whom Darwin would consign his Galápagos finches and mockingbirds for identification, also got a first look at this creature. Gould confirmed that it was a ...
In comparison, the large ground finch, Geospiza magnirostris, has a short, stocky beak to crack seeds and nuts. Darwin’s finches are often thought of as inspiring a ‘eureka moment’, but it was ...
Its full-time residents include armadillos, mona monkeys, and tropical mockingbirds. You're sure to encounter these magnificent creatures and more as you explore popular areas as Mount Qua Qua ...
So mockingbirds added to his later understanding of how one species might replace another through natural selection. One of Darwin’s finches is the mangrove finch, which today lives in just two ...
10cc founding member Graham Gouldman is bringing his highly acclaimed semi-acoustic show ‘Heart Full of Songs’ to The ...
Likewise the beautyberry and arrowwood shrubs, each picked down to the woody stems by cardinals and blue jays and mockingbirds and all manner of other creatures in this small, teeming yard.
It seems any time someone departs, there are birds around for long periods of time, keeping me company even through the night. After both of my grandparents died, mockingbirds were everywhere. After ...