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• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds/Passeriformes#Family_:_Mimidae_(Mockingbirds_and_Thrashers)
•  Info A northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) striking a pose. Mockingbirds are famously aggressive in defending their nests, and this is a "tail up" warning sign that I may have tread too close (unbeknownst to me). all by — Rhododendrites ^talk |  23:33, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  23:33, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent. Yeah, I've heard that male mockingbirds can attack people. Have you ever had a problem with one? I have not. I look at them, they sometimes look at me, but I stand still and don't do anything that makes them feel threatened, apparently. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:08, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
  • I've had them swoop down on me a few times. There was one that made its nest by a Starbucks parking lot where I lived years ago, and it would regularly swoop down on people going between their cars and the door. I've never seen them make contact with a human, though -- more like a divebomb that pulls up at the last minute. They're pretty fearless, though. I regularly see them going after hawks, chasing them away, repeatedly going in to grab some feathers, etc. The hawk is usually pretty unphased, but it's got to be annoying. The only time I wasn't sure if a bird might actually get me was this least tern. There was one little strip of beach open for walking between two protected areas, and it must've built its nest right near the edge, because when people would walk through (including me), it would fly high, circle around, then from maybe 30' away and 20' high, dive straight at me. It would do that, and then hover maybe 10' directly over my head, yelling at me, and did it over and over. I snapped that picture while it was hovering, then went on my way. What I didn't realize then was the reason they hover is because after divebombing, they defecate on the predator/intruder. If it was doing that, it must not have accounted for the wind, because I came out unscathed. :) — Rhododendrites ^talk |  03:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Very high quality bird photography Cmao20 (talk) 00:51, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support !! -- Radomianin (talk) 06:03, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- IamMM (talk) 06:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Ermell (talk) 08:03, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 09:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:12, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 12:26, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:26, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --SHB2000 (talk) 04:54, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 08:14, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Princess Rosalina 💄 452917 09:16, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 02:44, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 10:18, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 10:19, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support. Hulged (talk) 12:45, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Aristeas (talk) 06:34, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Passeriformes#Family_:_Mimidae_(Mockingbirds_and_Thrashers)