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It's not natural selection since cats are not native to the USA. Our birds have no evolutionary experience with cats. Mocking birds are a protected bird and their numbers are dropping in many areas including where I live. We haven't heard one so far this spring, nor last spring either. As little as 15 years ago we would hear several of them, both close and often another in the distance.
looks like a mocking bird. they are notorious for tormenting cats even if a nest is not close by. still sorry to see it be caught.
I think someone gave you the wrong information. They very seldom harass cats or people or anything else if there is no nest or nestlings close by. That bird's mate will now have to struggle to raise the brood alone.
Did anyone notice how many times that bird annoyed the cat before the cat actually attacked it? The cat was trying to mind its own business, but that bird wouldn't leave it alone...that was surprising to me, I would think a cat would instinctively try to catch and kill any small bird or mouse, even if it wasn't hungry, especially if I based that assumption on the numerous posts on this forum about how many songbirds are killed by cats all the time...somehow, it doesn't seem like most birds would keep approaching a cat like the bird in this video is doing, and it doesn't seem like most cats would be so dis-interested in a bird whether it was acting annoying or not....
I did notice that, and I was surprised too. The cat took a lot of crap before it turned on the bird. But the thinking human on the scene shouldn't have let it happen.
It's not natural selection since cats are not native to the USA.
That may be, but other predators are. That bird was asking for a quick exit since it continued to attack the cat. Its unusually aggressive behavior toward a much larger animal and its unhappy demise constitutes natural selection IMO. I've seen mockingbirds attack other animals several times.
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