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Some of the bird songs we hear are imitations or copycat sounds that birds have heard other birds making either in their territory here or in their wintering grounds in Latin or South America. The birds sing from a conspicuous perch, and project a long series of complex phrases strung together, repeating a phrase many times.
They capture the sounds they hear from others and make them their own. These impersonations titillate us with their clever masquerades, and the birds that produce these unique sounds are called “mimic thrushes.”
Three of these mimics are somewhat common to Rappahannock: the gray catbird, the northern mocking
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