This photo provided by the University of Florida, taken April 19, 2009, shows a mockingbird grazing University of Florida biology major Devon Duffy, in Gainesville, Fla., in an attempt to drive her ...

Mockingbirds are on the attack! One man told me he couldn’t get to his mailbox without a mockingbird dive-bombing him and screeching in his ears. Some students at Lone Star College-Kingwood report ...

Call them bombardiers or kamikazes, northern mockingbirds nesting in a bush near the elevator in Century Village Boca Raton Exeter D are protecting their nests by attacking residents. Fay Feldman, ...

It was an odd scene. A northern mockingbird, with a little help from a Baltimore oriole, continually dive-bombing a red-tailed hawk. Mockingbirds are about 10 inches long; orioles about eight inches.

One sunny afternoon in June, Denise Weinstein was walking Josie, her shaggy, white Maltese shih tzu mix, outside Century Village, the 55-and-older South Florida retirement complex where she lives.

Biologists are reporting that mockingbirds recognize and remember people whom the birds perceive as threatening their nests. If the white-and-grey songbirds common in cities and towns throughout the ...

It’s nesting season. Beware. Dive-bombing mockingbirds are in the air. That sudden fluttering of wings at your ear, that peck on the skull? Florida’s plucky state bird is warding off potential ...

Most of Georgia’s year-round songbirds, such as robins, bluebirds and cardinals, establish and aggressively defend territories during the spring and summer nesting season. Come autumn, however, with ...

It’s nearing the end of the breeding season, though many birds are still feeding their families away from the nest. I’ve been watching a pair of Northern mockingbirds with two fledglings for the past ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The birds are watching. They know who you are. And they will attack. Nope, not Hitchcock. It's science. University of Florida biologists are reporting that mockingbirds recognize ...