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at our wildlife refuge. This is adaption I guess.

that birds display these unusual noises in order to attract mates. A vast array of sounds coming from a bird, indicates that this bird "has been around" and is intelligent--and thus a more attractive mate to female birds.

That's kind of funny really.
We have a peacock roaming our neighborhood now and he sounds like an old fashioned car horn.

My friend Pam was a phone-aholic. She would lie in a hammock under this huge oak tree and answer and talk on one of those big portable "brick" phones .... this was the '80s.

Of course the mockingbird living in the tree learned the phone's ring.

I can hear Pam now... " Hello?...God Damn it!".... when she'd pick up the phone because the bird was imitating it.

Nature wins! (sometimes)

What a marvel our "superior" brains are.

It seems impossible one bird could create these sounds. It seems like a reminder to human we simply know almost nothing about our world, about life, about others. It should awaken people who learn about it, but what are the chances?