Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Naturalistic Task (Research)


The Northern Mockingbird is the only mockingbird found in North America. It breeds in southeastern Canada, the United States, northern Mexico, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and the Great Antilles.
Mockingbirds have a strong prefernce for certain trees such as maple, sweetgum, and sycamore. They generally avoid pine trees after the other trees have grown their leaves. Also, they have a particualr preference for high places, such as the topmost branches of trees. Mockingbirds are often found in urban and suburban areas, where they perch on telephone poles, streetlights, or high points on buildings.
Also, the mockingbirds' willingness to nest near houses, their loud and frequent songs, and their territorial defense often annoy people.

With such information, we can conclude that either maple, sweetgum or sycamore trees grow in Maycomb since the mockingbirds are attracted to such trees. Besides this, Maycomb is also an urban area and since mockingbirds will nest near houses, it is not surprising that mockingbirds can be found in Maycomb.

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