"I heard this strange song coming from a mockingbird in a big spruce across the street from St. Luke's Hospital," bird watcher Bob Ausmus said. These slender-bodied gray birds apparently pour all their color into their personalities. The song of the northern cardinal sounds like a car alarm to my ear – so much so that if I didn’t know their song so well, I might think the sounds were coming from a mockingbird who was imitating a car alarm. Many birds imitate the songs of other birds, and these birds can also pick up other noises from the environment, including car alarms. I know this sounds mad but I think we have a Northern Mockingbird in the Novo Sancti Petri area - just wondering if anyone else has heard it. Mockingbirds can be heard from blocks far away so that did not help. That 'car alarm' critter is a multitalented mockingbird, Clay Thompson: Mockingbirds can sing many tunes. A lot of birds are intelligent enough to learn and memorize the sound of something they are interested in. I will have to check it out as the last posters mentioned mockingbird as a possibility. What bird has a natural song that sounds like a car alarm? Get Mockingbird Sounds from Soundsnap, the Leading Sound Library for Unlimited SFX Downloads. by Clay Thompson, Republic columnist - Apr. There is a crow around my work that will sound like a car alarm the kind that changes tones like 8 times , like a siren to a buooooop,and so on, the bird does the whole thing! I have a bird that wakes me up each morning that sounds a lot like this one. Mockingbird songs may also incorporate the vocalizations of non-avian species, such as mammals (including the pet dog!) The family is noted for mimicking sounds but usually, other birds sounds are mimicked. I was walking at the park today with my little Millie, a Yorkie, and thought I heard a Blue Jay.. I will have to check it out as the last posters mentioned mockingbird as a possibility. Mockingbirds belong to the Mimidae family of Passeriforme birds. already exists as an alternate of this question. These sounds are learned, memorized, and incorporated into the mockingbird’s ever-expanding repertoire. At night I was awoken by a sound like a car alarm going off but it was really near. Christopher Layer said a mockingbird outside his Greenwich Village loft sounds like a Lexus that's about to be stolen. I managed to get a video of the calls this morning. Mockingbird imitates a car alarm This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by pinto (a host of the Video & Multimedia forum). exists and is an alternate of . I started to look around for it but then instantly I heard an American Robin’s call and immediately following that was the call of a Red-winged blackbird. It went on til the early hours of the morning. That 'car alarm' critter is a multitalented mockingbird. I like birds but not the mockingbird. You'll see in the video the direction I believe it's coming from. TIL the northern mockingbird can imitate the sounds of other birds, cats, dogs, crickets, and even car alarms Would you like to make it the primary and merge this question into it? There is a crow around my work that will sound like a car alarm the kind that changes tones like 8 times , like a siren to a buooooop,and so on, the bird does the whole thing! They are well known for mimicking other birds and sounds like car alarms, and are one of the few that sing through the night. or frogs, and even electronic sounds, like car alarms and cell phones. I first noticed it last year around March or so. What sound does the mockingbird sound like? Hard to say. These slender-bodied gray birds apparently pour all their color into their personalities. Would you like to merge this question into it? r/nature: * Share your fascinating links about nature * Discuss endangered parts of nature * Contribute news about the wonders of nature * Meet … I can see how that might be the case although where I live in relatively quiet suburbia, we don't have too many car alarms going off (when they do, birds are usually asleep too) so … ... then switches to another four calls in another and so on through at least 12 different car-alarm sounds? It is exactly like the different sounds of our neighbor's car alarm. already exists.