This photo provided by the University of Florida, taken April 19, 2009, shows a mockingbird grazing University of Florida biology major Devon Duffy, in Gainesville, Fla., in an attempt to drive her ...

A new Tulane University study finds that lead contamination in cities isn't just a risk for children. It could also mean fewer hatchlings for mockingbirds. The study, published in Environmental ...

It’s nesting season. Beware. Dive-bombing mockingbirds are in the air. That sudden fluttering of wings at your ear, that peck on the skull? Florida’s plucky state bird is warding off potential ...

Mockingbirds are on the attack! One man told me he couldn’t get to his mailbox without a mockingbird dive-bombing him and screeching in his ears. Some students at Lone Star College-Kingwood report ...

Most of Georgia’s year-round songbirds, such as robins, bluebirds and cardinals, establish and aggressively defend territories during the spring and summer nesting season. Come autumn, however, with ...

Summer nesting season is a busy time for birds. Two weeks ago a pair of mockingbirds shopped for twigs in my front yard. They picked up twigs that had fallen from a willow oak and tested them for ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The birds are watching. They know who you are. And they will attack. Nope, not Hitchcock. It's science. University of Florida biologists are reporting that mockingbirds recognize ...