A resident Northern Mockingbird on territory around my yard was singing incessently just outside my window a few minutes ago. I listened to it for about 15 minutes and noted which birds it was mimicking. Some of the species were surprising, ones I've never heard come from the voice of a mockingbird, such as chimney swift and red-bellied woodpecker! Here is a list of the species I heard mimicked by this bird within this time frame: Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Chimney Swift Red-bellied Woodpecker (2x in repertoire) Blue Jay (frequent in the repertoire) Purple Martin Tufted Titmouse (frequent in the repertoire) White-breasted Nuthatch (2x in repertoire) Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Cardinal (frequent in the repertoire) David A. Brinkman Xavier University graduate student Middle childhood math & science Cincinnati, OH ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]