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Originally Posted by Laine
But there are some errors that throw me out of reader trance. I recently read a Regency Romance set in England where someone was walking along listening to the sound of the mockingbirds. There were no mockingbirds in my Observers Book of British Birds.
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The sedge warbler is sometimes called a mockingbird in England.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Mocking-bird
(Although I don't know if that was the case during the Regency period.)