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Birds
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does not migrate. The mockingbird is sometimes aggressive with other birds that enter its territory. According to The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, it also uses wingflashing display (showing its white wing-patches) when advising others of its territory.
This device is also used to scare insects out of hiding. The mockingbird feeds on the ground looking for insects and fruit, their primary food sources. This bird does well here in the winter months living off the multi-flora rose hips growing so abundantly in our fence rows.
The mockingbird sings well into the evening, one of the few songbirds that sings after dark. He begins again about an hour before sun up.
The brown thrasher is a large, quiet, secretive bird that lives in dense, shrubby, second growth vegetation and tangled thickets. This large bird is not seen as much, but its rusty brown coloration and long tail are key identifiers.
Sibley says that the brown thrasher is given its name because it apparently thrashes the ground with its wings to stir up insects for its diet. Its vocabulary is not as extensive, varied
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