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The northern mockingbird is the state bird of five states in the United States, a trend that was started in 1920, when the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs proposed the idea. In January 1927, Governor Dan Moody approved this, and Texas became the first state ever to choose a state bird.
The traditional lullaby "Hush Little Baby" [59] has a line that goes "Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird". The song of the northern mockingbird inspired many American folk songs of the mid-19th century, such as "Listen to the Mocking Bird". [60] Thomas Jefferson had several pet mockingbirds, including a bird named "Dick". [61] [62]
"Listen to the Mocking Bird" was parodied in the television series, The Flintstones, as a swinging jazz tune called "Listen to the Rocking Bird", in the 1961 episode "The Girls' Night Out". "Listen to the Mockingbird" forms part of the "Merry-Go-Round Music" medley in Marvin Hamlisch 's soundtrack for the 1973 motion picture The Sting , and is ...
"At Night" is a song by Swiss house music project Shakedown, featuring vocals from American singer Terra Deva. [1] Released on 29 April 2002, it reached number six on the UK Singles Chart and number one on the UK Dance Chart in May 2002.
A gray catbird's song is easily distinguished from that of the northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) or brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) because the mockingbird repeats its phrases or "strophes" three to four times, the thrasher usually twice, but the catbird sings most phrases only once. The catbird's song is usually described as more raspy ...
'Twas the Night Before Christmas History The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas , was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called ...
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Mimus is a bird genus in the family Mimidae.It contains the typical mockingbirds.In 2007, the genus Nesomimus was merged into Mimus by the American Ornithologists' Union. [2] The genus name is Latin for "mimic".