Northern Mockingbird
| Mimus polyglottos | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Mimidae (Mockingbirds and Thrashers) |
Mimus polyglottos
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Mimidae (Mockingbirds and Thrashers)
Thomas Jefferson’s favorite bird—he had a mockingbird named Dick living with him in the White House, and waxed euphoric about it in his Notes on the State of Virginia—is the state bird of Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Joan Brigham at 100! 2024
- More about Brown Thrashers 2020
- Giving Mozart the Last Word on Starlings 2020
- The Crisis at Anzalduas Park 2019
- Across the Universe 2018
- Review: Song Sleuth, the bird song identification app 2017
- Birding at Brooklyn Bridge Park with Heather Wolf 2016
- New Mockingbird Research 2016
- Bird Songs in the News! 2014
- Mr. Borkowski, Great Teacher or the Greatest Teacher? 2012
- Bird Song Primer, Part I 2012
- Angry Birds 2011
- New Mockingbird Research 2009
- Movie Review: Hairspray 2007
- Free as a Chickadee 2007
- Protecting Our Hearing with Earplugs 2006
- Mockingbird Story Illustrating the Danger of Windows 2006
- Mimicry 2006
- Reconsidering Alaska's State Bird: Ptarmigan vs. Raven 2005
- My Boy in Florida 2003
- Where the Boids Are 2003
- Mockingbirds 2002
- Mork and Mindy the Baby Brown Thrashers 2002
- Late Fall Robins 2001
- Book Club; The Yearling 2001
- Fox Sparrow 2000
- Florida for Spring Break! 1999
- State Birds 1999
- Travel 1999
- Book Review: T. S. Roberts's The Birds of Minnesota 1999
- Bizarre winter weather, and Jim Baker 1999
- Once in a Blue Moon: National Blue Jay Awareness Month 1999
- Northern Shrike 1997
- Northern Shrike 1995
- T.S. Roberts (Placeholder) 1995
- Catbirds 1994
- California Birding 1994
- Birding along I-35 1991
- Lists 1991
- New Years Day 1991
- Winter Bird Contest 1989
- Piano Lessons 1989
- Birds of Ireland 1989
- Northern Shrike 1989
- Attracting Birds 1989
- Birds of Washington, D.C. 1989
- Preparing for a trip 1988
- Brown Thrasher 1988
- New Year's Day 1988 1988
- Catbirds 1987
- Christmas Bird Count 1986
- Catbird 1986
- Lousy Weather: Spring Update 1986
- Spring Weather 1986
Sound Recording
- Florida Scrub-Jays 2023