Trivia: Which founding father carried a mockingbird on his shoulder?
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas Jefferson
Grover Cleveland
Richard Nixon
The correct answer is Thomas Jefferson
So why is this answer correct? : America’s third President famously loved and kept several mockingbirds as pets. He was especially fond of a male mockingbird he named Dick. He would leave Dick’s cage open in the White House, allowing the bird to fly around his office, and sometimes carried him on his shoulder.