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Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird opens in a sleepy Alabama town in the midst of the Great ...
WHEN I WORKED on a college campus, a northern mockingbird often accompanied me on the walk between my car and my office. This slender gray bird darted from the hedges, flashing white wing patches and ...
Everything about a mockingbird bespeaks the American spirit of freedom that led to the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Much like George Washington’s courageous ragtag soldiers who ...
To Kill a Mockingbird helped put Monroeville, Alabama, on the map. When National Geographic visited in 2006, tourists were eager to see the “Literary Capital of Alabama” and locals were “[quoting] ...
Most of Georgia’s year-round songbirds, such as robins, bluebirds and cardinals, establish and aggressively defend territories during the spring and summer nesting season. Come autumn, however, with ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – For nearly a century, the mockingbird has reigned supreme as the state bird of Florida, surviving multiple coup attempts by the Florida Legislature. Once again, a lawmaker this ...