Naturalist:
a. Do a research on the natural habitat of mockingbird. In your research, include the kind of flora and fauna you think exist in Maycomb and explain why the mockingbirds live in Maycomb.
Mockingbirds are members of the Mimidae family, a group of American passerines that also includes thrashers, tremblers, and New World catbirds. These stentorian songbirds, medium sized with angular proportions and long, twitchy tails, range from the Canadian border down through South America. The song of the mockingbird is actually a medley of the calls of many other birds. Each imitation is repeated two or three times before another song is initiated. A given bird may have 30, 40 or even 200 songs in its repertoire, including other bird songs, insect and amphibian sounds, and even the occasional mechanical noise.
The mockingbird is gray on top and white on its underside. It has white patches on its wings that look like bars; a long black tail with white outer feathers and a long, slender bill. Males and females look alike.
I think that the mockingbirds found in Maycomb should be the Northern Mockingbird. The Northern mockingbird lives in open country with thickets, farmland and desert brush. The Northern mockingbird can be found in most of the continental United States from southern Oregon through northern Utah to Newfoundland and south to Mexico. The diet of the northern mockingbird consists of ants, beetles, grasshoppers, seeds and berries.
Based on the infomation on the habitat of the mockingbird and more, I think that Maycomb was an area with big patches of farmland and has a lot of desert brushes. I think the reason why mockingbirds live in Maycomb as Maycomb's surroundings is similar to a mockingbird's habitat. Another possibility could be that because Maycomb was not densely populated, so the mockingbirds could set up nests there without being disturbed.
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