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To: bagster; edzo4; JockoManning

Mockingbird sing in the dead of night
Another crumb!

This is getting creepy. What are we now to make of the Blue Meanies. MS-13? Antifa?????

916 posted on 4/1/2018, 3:03:52 PM by bagster
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exactly.... when does a bird sing?


981 posted on 04/01/2018 2:21:48 PM PDT by TEXOKIE
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To: TEXOKIE

[exactly.... when does a bird sing?]

Why the Mockingbird Sings : And Why at Night, When Most Birds Sleep?
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-01-25/magazine/tm-5613_1_mockingbird-sings

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Mockingbirds, for instance, are not singing out of joy or pleasure as is commonly believed. Much of the time, they sing out of desperation.

The evidence clearly suggested the kind of life a mockingbird lives. Like most songbirds, they have evolved a system of parceling up the land, which acts as a kind of natural farm, with the males defending the boundaries. They rarely fight physically, though, presumably because injury is too costly at a time when a bird needs all its strength just to break even in the energy economics of life. But there is usually no need to fight, because the vigor and skill of your song gives a good idea of the vigor and skill of your body—should a little more convincing be necessary.


1,087 posted on 04/01/2018 3:49:31 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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