In winter Northern Mockingbird individuals (or pairs or families?) defend a territory such as a shrubby thickets with a supply of fruit for them to eat. The Mockingbird will try to chase off other birds from eating its winter food supply. European Starlings have a different strategy, traveling in a flock and eating a lot of fruit wherever they stop, perhaps stripping it all. The arrival of a Starling flock can be a real bummer situation for a Mockingbird, but I have seen a Mockingbird drive off a small flock of about 20 Starlings.
--Dave Nutter On Jan 04, 2015, at 08:03 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: > ... Cayuga Vista road ... a couple of No. Mockingbirds that were being kind > of harassed by a large flock of starlings. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
