Imitates more than 30 bird songs, squeaky hinges, howling dogs, ringing alarm clocks and factory whistles.
Males like to sing on warm summer nights.
Related to catbird and brown thrasher. Home gardens and lawns, woods, farmland, stream thickets. Much of United States. Eastern red cedar, flowering dogwood, red and white mulberry, American holly, flowering crabapples, Yaupon holly, inkberry, glossy-leaved viburnum, Carolina laurel, serviceberry, honeysuckle and Japanese barberry.