[tn-bird] Birds and car alarms

TN-Birders:

A student here at UTC relayed an interesting story to me. For the last
couple of weeks students in a chemistry class have had to deal with a car
alarm going off during the lecture. Finally, this one student decided to
hunt down the vehicle and leave a note for the owner to fix their
$%#@#&*$@ alarm. She followed the sound and discovered that it was not being
made by a car, but by a mockingbird! I have seen stories from Sweden and
Holland of starlings imitating cell phone rings, but this is a new one.
Maybe the name should be changed to Mimus polyautomobilicus.

David Aborn
Chattanooga, TN
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