Mockingbird imitates a car alarm

A mockingbird goes through all the cycles of one of those multi-sound car alarms, listen for the attention to detail when it even imitates the chirp of the alarm being shut off. When I first heard it, I was about to say, "Hey, that bird sounds like a car alarm." Then I realized, that bird sounds like a car alarm! They are like little DJ's sampling copyrighted sounds.

[@barash3603]

Wow! At 1:05, if you listen closely, you can hear it imitating a human voice.

[@seth817]

Wow it did a really good job too!

[@smallabrasion526]

Nature is beautiful

[@yungdreamer100]

Too funny !!!!

[@mercurianrepublic5943]

I know right?Fucking idiot should’ve shut up Don’t hate the guy i’m just joining in on the joke.

[@sarahshepherd5850]

Hilarious

[@goclunker]

This is really fun at 2am

[@sararose527]

When you're hella baked 😑

[@kiminokao3152]

time to get a bb gun..

[@RenewalCreations]

No kidding. Just started hearing them in the middle of the night. No idea why but it sure mixes up my sense of time.

[@michaeljones5343]

Lmao 🥳🤸🤸🤣

[@willyho2g]

I'm looking to shoot 1 with my m4 at 1230 am

[@southeasterner]

That is hilarious! We had a bird in our Washington DC neighborhood who would do the car alarm "song" every morning at sun rise...it was our urban rooster.

[@JenniferBakker]

There is a car alarm is in his call. Mockingbirds like most mimics only imitate a couple of notes at a time from any sound. If you listen, more than one of the sections of his song come from car alarms and other human-made sources.

[@davidhunternyc1]

.. car alarms, police sirens, fire engines, all sad human sounds. Poor mockingbird.

[@OverlyDankName]

@@davidhunternyc1 Bro it's literally a sound.

[@davidhunternyc1]

@@OverlyDankName Yo Son I gotch u.

[@xXWaifuInsuranceXx]

A mockingbird woke me up this morning mocking a ticking clock. I legitimately thought it was a super loud clock, and it was louder than the already super loud fan I had going in my open window. Thought it was an alarm from someone's phone or something.

[@Nikijo22]

I was so confused when I head a very out of place “duck”. Then I saw that the culprit was really a mockingbird. It’s pretty incredible what they can imitate.

[@juliethomas1312]

I listened to this outside and the mockingbird in our yard immediately started repeating it.

[@abigailthornton6317]

mine immediately shut up in awe

[@oldschoolnickrocks]

how cool!

[@stephanieleon5970]

Bahahaha - I listened to it outside with my dogs and it called all the birds to my yard. 😆

[@arnellp8771]

The voice in the end surprised me lol

[@mamaboocee]

It's a mockingbird imitating EVERYTHING!! LOL, love it!

[@GuamGrrl]

They are the coolest critters! Had this one at my old house in Austin that gave daily performances of power line acrobats! It was an actual regular routine. And he made sure we were watching and if we paid attention to something else he'd stop and scream at us until we looked back at him, then he'd go back to his acrobats. The best way to describe it is picture a gymnast on a high bar but you can't see any hands lol 😃

[@Moretothestories]

Mine is similar in personality! When I turn my back to do something or walk away he yells at me louder!

[@carrieberry8846]

I love mockingbirds, love going to sleep hearing their song.

[@jn2898]

+R Fox why would u say that

[@earthwormjim420]

R Fox eat shit

[@fivehundreddollardreamboat]

And if you think I read your little book, you'd be wrong. I didn't even click the "view more" button. Do you know why? I don't care what you said. Do you know why I don't care? You're an idiot. Has anyone ever told you that before? Sure they have. Bye Felicia.

[@whiskeyjack2256]

Aww the little guy thinks cuckold was made up by millennials and he just learned about wiggers. What a cute wittle babby.

[@whiskeyjack2256]

I am late to the party but I am amused. If the kid comes back I will poke a stick at him.

[@shadycry5047]

I sat an hour straight thinking "What have we done?" how wrong that was, and it stuck with me. I kept coming back to it, trying to figure put where in the world we had gone so wrong that it ended up here.

[@fatihsonmez]

industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[@ezecoo]

Mockingbirds are great to wake up to in the morning when they imitate a car alarm. Right outside my window. Gotta love 'em, though.

[@blakbanshee]

I heard a Mockingbird do this in College Point, Queens. On my way to work, he would often be reciting his repertoire from the powerlines above.

[@andrewnoel9380]

There's a mockingbird chirping away right now. ^_^ I love coming out here just to listen them.

[@Terrakinetic]

Every spring I revisit this video because the birds are at it again. There aren't even any more cars with this alarm nearby; they're teaching each other the damn car alarm song.

[@jc4470]

It’s 1am and I’m listening to two mockingbirds go back and forth with car alarm sounds 🥰

[@pcaetano7527]

i've noticed they do this in a lot of urban areas and they have come to teach each other the car alarm song.

[@CarissaConti]

The song of our ancestors...... 🤣

[@SachmoMartinez]

The birds in Maryland where I used to live sound like that...even the turn off beep...lol

[@DJ80s]

I live in Maryland and all my life I've heard this bird that sounds like "Tweet Twow... Tweet Twow.... Tweet Tweet Tweet Tweet." And it just repeats over and over in that same rhythm. Any idea what kind of bird that might be?

[@itzromeofoolz]

DJ80s owl...

[@DJ80s]

No, it was not a hoot. It was a high pitched rhythm of tweets from a little sounding bird.

[@VestedUTuber]

DJ80s Might be a cardinal. I know I can hear them in North Carolina, and I also heard them everywhere when I lived in Illinois. Cardinals are common in both states.

[@DJ80s]

We do have some Cardinals living in the trees near our house. But I don't know if it's that. Just the other morning I was able to record some faint audio of the bird calling so maybe I could find a way to upload it and get people's opinion on what it really is. The audio is very hard to hear though.

[@rosethorne9155]

Reminds me of my own feather neighbors. He'd serenade his lady with his car alarm song in the middle of the night 😂

[@jamespollman6616]

The Mockingbird doing calls at 4am in the morning with window open on cool days... is the most relaxing and comforting thing I know... ... Unlike my wife at any hour.

[@jerrygu5316]

... so then I said, that's not a car alarm, that's my wife.

[@dabigsuge]

The industrial revolution and its consequences...

[@axelreboot8475]

To be fair they have been mocking everything since the dawn of man so you have to cut them a little slack they had basically already done all the other animals by this point

[@RyanNowlin]

Thanks for posting! I've had a bird outside my window that imitates car alarm in all its cycles and was wondering what it was.

[@dasilvadouglas1462]

Wow, that little baby has alot going on! Thanks sweet creature.

[@rillloudmother]

my old mockingbird that lived outside my old aparment was better at car alarm than this.

[@isaacezekielthecolorblindg7343]

rillloudmother is probably lived in an area with more car alarmes

[@levis569]

Yours huh?

[@chronomatica]

I used to work at an auto dealership that had two parents an African Grey and I'm a car that African Grey had the best Viper Alarm imitations that I ever saw as well as UPS truck backing up all day I was looking for a parrot that knows how to do a Viper Alarm like my old African Grey at work

[@Faithdced]

I was thinking the same of the mocking birds that live around our property. They sound so much more like a car alarm than this one. They sound almost exactly like my neighbor's car when it goes off, but I'm surprised because the car alarm has gone off in previous years, but not for the last year, and this is the first year I hear the mocking birds new "song". My husband thought someone's car alarm was sounding off around 4 am only to find out it was the darn mockingbird! lol. Ever since, I've heard them too, throughout the day.

[@jasmineg9738]

*Atticus has entered the chat*

[@IAmNoRookie]

Every spring it comes around and does this ALL DAY. Crazy how a bird sounds like a car alarm.. or visa versa? Thanks for posting this.

[@dantso3665]

Saw one today screeching like a Red-Tailed Hawk. So cool.

[@davidvinh8599]

their so freaking annoying when your trying to sleep..lol....their cool though

[@brierika7931]

david vinh OMG! Sooooooooooo annoying!!! I'm trying to sleep right now can you please stop TT

[@Ghostface4045]

david vinh I'm trying to sleep right now and it's hot as hell where I live so I have to sleep with my window open and those little shits are going back and forth making car sounds and ambulance sirens.

[@definitely_an_not_asian_gu7940]

david vinh *they're *you're

[@milllumine2246]

they're so god damn annoying

[@SoulBrotha91]

They do it all day and they never go to sleep like other normal birds. Like don't you get tired?

[@fatdanios]

I love mockingbirds! I can even hear them singing at night! (Personally, I think it's the car alarms trying to imitate the birds!)

[@JoseMolina-ij3xx]

The good news is that you can get a car towed away if it makes too much noise. Not so easy with a Mockingbird.

[@dalulla3742]

LyreBird: you dare CHALLENGE me mortal?

[@daratoc]

Aint that the truth man Mockingbirds are total badasses I've seen them chase down crows twice or more their size. Not just chase them away from their nest but straight chase after them like they want to beat them up its awesome.

[@JoseMolina-ij3xx]

The most unpleasant sound that a bird could potentially create. Mockingbirds are one of my most despised birds to hear at night.

[@guyfromtennessee6266]

I live in Tennessee. My house is suburban but it's only a few miles from my parents which is rural and they have a pond. I once heard a mocking bird imitating bull frogs.

[@lolacookie453]

This is brilliant! Animals are so amazing! Thanks for filming and sharing!!

[@Celestial_Wing]

These little guys are better than parakeets, smarter too.

[@yulitunes]

Thank you for uploading! I found a baby fallen out of its nest and I brought it home. This kind helped me identify what kind of bird it is . now he's chirping to video and i can finally feed him

[@chandramourya9776]

Really ?

[@birdee4661]

if you ever foster another mockingbird, the sound you make when you pucker your lips and make short, repetitive kissy noises sounds like mama barking out a dinner bell.

[@TreeMystical]

Industrial revolution and its consequences

[@augustus1757]

There is no place left to go, nowhere to live undisturbed, no nature left for us to live in peace

[@thecharredwitch]

I literally just took my dog out and heard one doing car alarm noises. We’re in a hotel in the city rn but we live in the countryside a couple states over. I’ve grown up listening to them but never really heard them imitating car alarms😂

[@johnspears9254]

I was just watching this outside and I swear to God a mockingbird right behind me started imitating the video 😮😮😮

[@1456Sassy]

The town I lived in had lots of mocking birds. They will mimic a cat meow, horn even a siren. Craziest things I've ever heard! Wonder why they don't mimic the humans hollering "SHUT UP!" lol

[@shadowmoon7692]

On april, wedsday 2016, i found two baby mockingbirds and kep them and then gave them to the local pet rescue shelter.. I will never again forget the beautiful music those baby fledgling mockies had

[@melinafranco7884]

My grandma's mocking bird is going crazy

[@MrHot2004momma]

They so do imitate car alarms! !! This last night of 4th of July, car alarms were going off during the fireworks & that same night, like all night, I heard a mocking bird doing the same car alarm noises

[@JewelRiders]

So I’ve heard this song that takes me back to childhood each morning in my new neighborhood. And I thought that perhaps it might be the same birds we had in my childhood neighborhood. I realize it was a mockingbird. So the mystery is whether I had mockingbirds original ink, or if the bird has learned their song. A friend told me well at least the bird hasn’t learned a car alarm LOL and lo and behold…

[@felipesanin1808]

Last night was a full moon.. and he did not stop all night long... I have him recorded too...

[@johnrambo6302]

The Cutting Crew.....one for the mockingbird...great song!!!

[@NPC1921]

Every time I hear a bird and have no idea what it is I always assume it’s a mockingbird, and I’m correct 99% of the time

[@mrboleus8240]

I live in kinda rural area, and when I walk down the road, I can hear them in specific patterns.. What's funnier is that they're talking like small robots exchanging some data... We, humans know so little about nature. I can feel their superiority being unable to understand them.

[@Loshia2002]

No shit about them kicking some major butt...we've got a nesting pair at the end of my street and these guys are absolutely fearless! Sparrow, crow, raven, hell even the hawks, cats n' coyotes get the pummeling of a lifetime if they venture too close to their babies...they'll divebomb anything they perceive as a threat and won't stop until they're satisfied the danger is over. Really cool critters and lots of fun to photograph!

[@dannilaser16]

I love mockingbirds. I have one living in a tree next to my bedroom window. I put on this video, and she loves it. She flies closer and closer when she hears it.

[@lordalcyoneus7187]

It does not love the video, mockingbirds are extremely territorial and it believes the audio to be from an invader. This stresses them out and distracts from other responsibilities, so please don't continue doing that.

[@liveforyahushua1281]

ive heard one imitating a sea gull once lol i was like..."where is the sea gull?" then i saw the mockingbird 😂

[@abigailthornton6317]

i just had one return to our neighborhood tree, now with an interesting combination it seems of a seagull with an eagle...? a little jarring, also wondering where he´s been lately?

[@Tejano44]

Have raised them when they fell out of their nests . Would built cages with Texas bamboo,provide them with a perch and small opening and their mothers would feed them. When mature they would be released . I was afraid the cats would eat them . They always come , generations of them to the same tree to raise their young . I have seen them chase away animals and humans who got to close lto their nests . I love these birds .

[@nathan3170]

I just walked my dogs and ALL of the birds were mimicking car alarms. It's 6:40am here. It is their mating call. Humans have tarnished the planet beyond repair

[@yppykya]

He did imitate a car alarm , but just a second. Got one at my house who goes on , and on.

[@Acheron538]

Every mockingbird in my neighborhood knows this song.

[@2degucitas]

What a complicated way of saying,"come over here and I'll kick yer ass!"

[@Vegan_scorpioo]

i love birds, blessed creatures💫

[@user-dt9qc5uv2m]

We live in Texas and have a Mr Mocking Bird in one of our pecan trees. He loves to imitate my husband's whistles. But when I let our cat out Mr Bird dive-bombs the cat! Not sure why....

[@sharting.zogbot1229]

Go open the package in your mailbox. Do it.

[@sqipio3358]

I understood that reference

[@NorsePaganFrost]

0:47 This bird is laying down some FUNKY beats.

[@autumnwhispers2me]

Sounded for a minute like it was imitating a frog too. lol We have a pair that hangs out around our house. One of them will sit and watch me when I'm doing yard work.

[@MrTommy001]

We have mockingbirds around here and none of them mock any of the local birds. We've got jays, robins, quail, magpies, dove, crows, sparrows, finches, hawks, owls, black birds, wrens, and on and on. I'm beginning to think mockingbirds are born with their repertoire of zillions of calls, but none have anything to do with 'mocking' other birds. Just sayin'...

[@birdee4661]

the bird i'm fostering tries to imitate chopin... lol

[@dannilaser16]

You have to work with them. Believe me, it pays off.

[@gemmarium4337]

Lil dude could supply every sound effect for Star Wars. Pew pew.

[@tyanarutledge8746]

I thought I was the only one who realized the resemblance

[@cheapvegetablegarden]

i showed my sister this and she loves it

[@DJXTECH2O1O]

Early in the morning those damm birds stick by my window doing that shit! Aghhhh

[@doddy195]

yep! i have one of these right outside my window and he chirps every night and every morning. when i first heard it i thought i was going crazy, until someone who was visiting witnessed it too. this is too funny!

[@ibnyahud]

I do a lot of walking at night, and I've had fun playing a simon says sort of whistling contest with them lol

[@snich1111]

I love these guys.

[@snugbug5067]

They are amazing birds ! But hard to sleep to with a window open in summer 😄😵

[@LitLBirdLitLBird]

A mockingbird near me now (in the middle of the night!) is now telling me, ~watta pretty itty itty; itty bitty itty bitty itty bitty; ~watta watta watta watta; watta watta watta watta ~little ittle it-it-it-it-it-it ittle ickle pretty little ittle pity itty boy ! ~bo~oy? bo~oy? bo~oy? bo~bobobobobo~oy ? ~pritbird; prit-bird preetee preetee, ~really-eely really-eely! really-eely lee lee lee lee~! I LOVE BIRDS. 'case ya couldn't tell.

[@rubberdown1969]

Mockingbirds have nothing on the Lyre bird when it comes to imitation

[@laraesque]

A mockingbird in our neighborhood can imitate perfectly the sound of a Toyota electronic door beep. So I keep looking outside to see who is messing with the car. Beep-beep. Exact tones, I swear. Took me a while to figure out it was the bird.

[@mhcook9747]

I sleep with the window open above my head for the good fresh air. He's here looking for his wife. All Night Long. Here in AZ he will jump and fly up and down from a cactus all night long to call her. All Night Long. Never kill a mockingbird.

[@newq]

I just successfully taught the mockingbird that lives outside my apartment the melody to Funky Town by whistling it over and over. People don't realize how easy it is to do this. Go try it.

[@rixfive]

Its actually the other way around, car alarms were designed from the sounds mockingbirds make.

[@dd0ug]

I once saw one in Boca Raton that was like this but dead on - he sounded EXACTLY like a car alarm.

[@Kuckerkarlson]

dd0ug i live in boca!

[@KiloByte69]

Logan Jewkes Fuck this, I'm goin' to BOCA.

[@Kuckerkarlson]

KiloByte69 be carefull lol the place is full of rich old people that are horrible at driving

[@dragondancer1814]

I used to have a Jeep Cherokee with that exact same car alarm in it! Freaky what mockingbirds learn to copy!

[@georgearciero2751]

That's just the usual mockingbird song.

[@benben77777]

Never heard such a car alarm

[@CharismaticPlanet3822]

this bird has amazing call. thanks for sharing.

[@infinitykitty1250]

Hmm, imitating sounds very well? Can’t be just any mockingbird. Gotta be mockingjay.

[@MercOilbuner]

They prolly are eating insects. But when I see one shaking the heck out of the branches of my fruit trees I think to myself "its time to feed the cat's".

[@marcie540]

This is really interesting. The next time I hear a mockingbird, I must pay more attention to his sounds.

[@michaelambrosano938]

beautiful,..nature is beautiful

[@lamorenamt8327]

Beautiful

[@pinkponyofprey1965]

You can call that a noisy bastard haha!

[@Sealust50]

I LOVE those babies!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@fritz1218]

I once had to change telephones (land line) when the mockingbird outside the window learned to imitate its electronic 'ring'. [before ringtones, kiddies]

[@Razzy1312]

I hear this outside my work every morning. Some bird going off in the same pattern as a standard US car alarm. It always makes me laugh.

[@marinavila]

Ok, I hire it.

[@chuckbright1105]

I love the mockingbird song I live in northern California I get up at 5:00 am during the spring to listen to the mockingbird at 600 am As day light brakes

[@vanekPI]

I woke up to a bird actually doing this. Pissed me the fuck off.

[@scottymac713]

I watched one screaming like a hawk, very cool birds

[@Evakkay]

If there's any bird experts here. A question I really would like answer is. Do Mockingbirds have a call of their own? I mostly hear them imitating Cardinals, and rare occasion I heard it imitating a Blue Jay.

[@lm2017]

Yes they do have a call of their own, here is a link where you can play them all: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Mockingbird/sounds

[@Evakkay]

Th3B1rdN3rd Thank you, good sir

[@lm2017]

Np!

[@shockblaster]

About 50/50 they have their own calls and learned calls. www.allaboutbirds.org/mockingbirds-can-learn-hundreds-of-songs-but-theres-a-limit/?Cornell%20Lab%20eNews&Cornell%20Lab%20eNews%2007_14_2016&

[@vyperspit]

The northern mockingbird does have certain noises or calls of it's own that it mostly uses to scare or intimidate enemies. Bird experts theorize that the medley of sounds the male imitates express his genetic strengths to potential mates; or in other words, the females choose the most worthy partner based on the quality of his "mash ups" of different sounds.

[@bigpuma444]

Just started seeing these in eastern Colorado. Cool at first to see a unique species of bird here, right up until I had come to find out that they, literally, sing all god damn night long..

[@Animatrixette16]

Please God, Reincarnate me into a mockingbird!!! Pleassseee!!

[@heliosdawnsong]

They go all day and night in SF, fucking drive me crazy

[@HEIGHTSIXFIVE]

Wow. Mocking birds realy DO mock!

[@lillieannensorensen6512]

I heard a blue jay, an oriole, a cardinal or two, a tree frog and one of those chirping ground squirrels but no car alarm.

[@LegionOfWeirdos]

If you're someone who doesn't recognize all those bird calls, the first eleven seconds could sound like one of those cheap car alarms that has a series of annoying patterns. I'm not sure if this bird was actually doing that or not and I'm not even sure if the guy who posted the video realized that.

[@snugbug5067]

Lillieannen Sorensen I heard a whip or will too. It did do a quick car alarm sound. Not sure the time frame.

[@michaelglendinning1738]

I have even seen them do that fax machine noise. It almost makes me think they can intercept signals going to towers.