Northern Mockingbird

Mimus polyglottos

Northern Mockingbird photographed by Mark Curtis
May 24, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 11.2M open records.

Records by month. January, 956,446 records. February, 1,006,107 records. March, 1,043,331 records. April, 1,389,634 records. May, 1,392,342 records. June, 872,999 records. July, 719,383 records. August, 572,276 records. September, 682,981 records. October, 990,214 records. November, 774,531 records. December, 833,918 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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