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26. Let me tell you how dangerous these birds are:

A few yrs ago i was remodelling our bedroom and replacing the 60+ yr old windows with new. Right outside one of the windows was a mockingbird nest. We had one old window completely removed when daddy mockingbird flew in the window screeching his disapproval, perching on the ceiling fan, flying around the room, perching on the closet door top edge, screeching, back to the ceiling fan, screeching. Did I mention the screeching? Then in comes momma mockingbird, coming to rescue her mate using the only weapons she had: swooping and more screeching. Our 3 cats made a stratregic evacuation of the area and went out the kitty-door to the back yard.

After closing the bedroom door to keep them from the rest of the house we managed to catch one then the other with our hands and put them back out the window. They screeched a lot in the very short time they were being held (2-3 steps across the room)
but did not peck even once.

In other words: all screech&swoop no bite.