Stats

Lifespan: 8-20 yrs
Size: Small
Diet: Omnivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Pair
Biome: Temperate shrubland
Range: North America
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Speed
Status: Common

About

A slender gray songbird famed for stitching together the calls of dozens of other species into long, virtuosic medleys. A single male may learn over 200 songs in his lifetime, often singing through moonlit nights to defend his territory.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2.
hatchling
A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
4.
adult
Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Mimidae
Genus: Mimus
Species: Mimus polyglottos