English task B

Naturalist:

a. Do a research on the natural habitat of mockingbird. In your research, include the kind of flora and fauna you think exist in Maycomb and explain why the mockingbirds live in Maycomb.

A mocking bird best known for the habit of mimicking the songs of other birds and the sounds of insects and amphibians, often loudly and in rapid succession. The mockingbird is gray on top and white on its underside. It has white patches on its wings that look like bars; a long black tail with white outer feathers and a long, slender bill. Males and females look alike.

Habitat

Mockingbirds are one of the few birds found in every kind of habitat, from desert to forest to city. They live in open country with thickets, farmland and desert brush. Mockingbirds like open areas rather than dense woodlands. Found in suburban yards, orchards, parks. The northern mockingbird is distributed widely and it has extended its range much farther north in recent years. They range throughout North America from southern Canada south to Mexico. They even have been introduced and established in Hawaii. Mockingbirds live year-around across Texas.

Maycomb

According to the book I feel that Maycomb has a hot and humid climate, therefore I would infer that the types of flora in maycomb would include

Canna

Canna (or Canna lily, although not a true lily) is a genus of nineteen species of flowering plants. The closest living relations to cannas are the other plant families of the order Zingiberales that is the gingers, bananas, marantas, heliconias, strelitzias, etc. The species have large, attractive foliage and horticulturists have turned it into a large-flowered, brash, bright and sometimes gaudy, garden plant. In addition, it is one of the world's richest starch sources, and is an agricultural plant.

Azaleas

Azaleas are flowering shrubs making up part of the genus Rhododendron. Originally azaleas were classed as a different genus of plant, but now they are recognized as two of the eight subgenera of rhododendrons - Pentanthera (deciduous) and Tsutsuji (evergreen). Azaleas bloom in spring, in damp mountainous places, their flowers dying only a few weeks later. They do not need as much sun as other plants; they live near trees and sometimes under them. Azalea is also the flower of the astrology symbol Sagittarius

Camellias

Camellia, the camellias, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are native to eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalaya east to Korea and Indonesia. There are 100–250 described species, with some controversy over the exact number. Camellias have a fast growth rate. Typically they will grow about 30 centimetres a year until mature although this varies depending on variety and location.

Snow-on-the-mountain

Euphorbia marginata, snow-on-the-mountain, smoke-on-the-prairie, variegated spurge, whitemargined spurge, is a small shrub in the Euphorbiaceae or spurge family native to parts of temperate North America The plant has grey-green leaves along branches and smaller leaves in terminal whorls with edges trimmed with wide white bands, creating, together with the white flowers, the appearance that gives the plant its common names.

I feel that animals such deers , bobcat, beaver, muskrat, raccoon, rabbit, squirrel, inhabit maycomb, as maycomb is extremely suitable for these animals

Why do mocking birds live in maycomb?

· Maycomb has a lot of grassy areas for mocking birds to feed on

· thick, thorny shrubs for hiding the nest

· high perches where the male can sing and defend his territory.

· Gardens for mocking birds to dwell about