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Northern Mockingbird

Mimus polyglottos

Photo by joanbstanley
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Description:

Medium-sized mockingbird with gray upperparts, paler gray underparts, and faint eyeline. Wings are gray-black with two white bars and large white patches visible when spread. The tail is long, gray, and edged with white. Eye is yellow. Legs and feet are black. Sexes similar, juvenile has dark eye and streaked underparts. Feeds on fruit and insects.

Habitat:

The Sweetwater Marsh Unit of the San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
The San Diego National Wildlife Refuge.

Complex supports habitats as diverse as coastal marshes and uplands, chaparral, coastal sage scrub, oak woodland, freshwater marsh, rare vernal pool wetlands, and the incredible breeding and nesting grounds for a suite of migratory and resident bird species in south San Diego Bay. These refuges help conserve the rich biological diversity and quality of life for which the region is famous.

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