Hi Dave. I know that mockingbirds do imitate whip-poor-wills, and they do sing all through the night, especially in Alabama!

Andy Papadatos

Snohomish, WA

> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:56:00 -0700
> From: dbarber71 at comcast.net
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: [Tweeters] FYI - Alabama Mockingbird?
>
> I'm sitting outside my hotel at 11:00 pm here listening to this bird
> that sings a variety of tunes. Man at another table tells me it is a
> "Night Whipoorwill". I go looking for the bird in the tree, not
> expecting to see anything. But I do and it looks to me like a
> mockingbird. But it is only streetlit in a leafy tree so I'm not sure,
> but it is certainly not anything in the poorwill/nightjar family.
>
> So the question is: Do mockingbirds sing that late at night?
>
> Thanks
>
> David Barber Vancouver, WA tripping in Birmingham at the Civil Rights
> Institute
>
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