What Do Mockingbirds Eat? Northern mockingbirds are big berry fans. Attract them with ornamental berry bushes like elderberry, blackberry, juniper and pokeweed.

The birds aren’t producing sounds at random. Some of their strategies are surprisingly similar to ones used by humans.

The Northern mockingbird is a fierce defender of its nest and may attack anything — including humans — it perceives as a threat to its eggs and young.

Mockingbirds are definitely the U.S. masters of mimicry, but they have some serious challengers on other continents. ... (which look like small bullfrogs) were calling.

No one knows for sure, but maybe a mockingbird with a wide variety of songs is more intimidating than one without the tunes. European starlings, now naturalized in the U.S., are also noted mimics.

From this, Roeske et al. conclude that mockingbirds compose their songs much like human composers do, drawing phrases from other birds' melodies that follow these four basic morphing modes, or ...