Emphasis Preaching Journal

The mockingbird is known for its joyous song. Mockingbirds sing long and strong, almost twenty hours a day, for most of the year. It's got a pretty song of its own, but that's not enough for the mockingbird. It will sing the songs of as many as 35 other birds, eight to ten different tunes a minute. People who study birds report one mockingbird that changed its tune 137 times in ten minutes, but there were only 43 different ones. Gives new depth to the phrase "bird brain." We know that birds sing for mating and territorial reasons.