NSIS: Florida's Common Land Birds - Mockingbirds, Thrashers

The Mockingbird is the state bird. It can imitate the songs of other birds as well as other sounds. Males sometimes sing during the night. Brown Thrashers and Catbirds, whose call sounds like a cat's mew, also mimic other birds' calls.

Mockingbirds and Catbirds forage the ground and in foliage and brush piles. Brown Thrashers forage in leaf litter. All feed on insects and fruit and may visit feeders when food is in short supply. None use nest boxes.

name	area	season	diet/native food plants
Gray Catbird	NC S	SpSuFW-B SpFW	fruit*, insects bayberry, beautyberry, blackberry, blackgum, blueberry, cabbage palm, crabapple, dewberry, dogwood, elderberry, grape, greenbrier, hackberry, hawthorn, holly, huckleberry, magnolia, marlberry, mulberry, persimmon, pigeon plum, red cedar, sassafras, sea grape, serviceberry, spice bush, viburnum, Virginia creeper, wax myrtle, wild cherry, wild coffee
Northern Mockingbird	NCS	SpSuFW-B	insects, fruit bayberry, beautyberry, blackberry, blackgum, blueberry, cabbage palm, crabapple, dewberry, dogwood, elderberry, fig, Florida privet, fringe tree, grape, greenbrier, hackberry, hawthorn, holly, huckleberry, magnolia, marlberry, mulberry, persimmon, pigeon plum, red cedar, sassafras, sea grape, serviceberry, torchwood, Virginia creeper, wild cherry, wild coffee, wild plum
Brown Thrasher	NCS	SpSuFW-B	insects, fruit, lizards, snakes bayberry, beautyberry, blackberry, blackgum, blueberry, cabbage palm, dogwood, elderberry, fig, grape, greenbrier, hackberry, holly, magnolia, oak, red cedar, mulberry, pine, sassafras, serviceberry, viburnum, Virginia creeper, wax myrtle, wild plum
N=north C=central S=south Sp=spring Su=summer F=fall W=winter B=breeds in Florida during season(s) underlined M=Migrant

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