Galapagos Mockingbird (Mimus parvulus) [XC842724]
by id from Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz, Gal\u00e1pagos Islands, Ecuador (begging call, call)
Galapagos Mockingbird (Mimus parvulus) [XC24270]
by Jesse Fagan from Near Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, Galapagos, Ecuador (song)
Nest
Composed of twigs, located low down on cacti or higher up on taller vegetation.
Subspecies
Genus considered most closely related to, and putatively derived from, mainland Long-tailed Mockingbird (Mimus longicaudatus). Forms a superspecies with Floreana Mockingbird (Mimus trifasciatus), Espanola Mockingbird (Mimus macdonaldi) and San Cristobal Mockingbird (Mimus melanotis) and all previously considered conspecific. Subspecies personatus has sometimes been treated as a separate species. Described subspecies bindloei (from Marchena I) considered indistinguishable from personatus.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
hulli (Rothschild, 1898) - Darwin (Culpepper) I.
wenmani (Swarth, 1931) - Wolf (Wenman) I.
personatus (Ridgway, 1890) - Islands of Pinta (Abingdon), Marchena (Bindloe), Santiago (James) and Rabida (Jervis).
bauri (Ridgway, 1894) - Genovesa (Tower) I.
parvulus (Gould, 1837) - Islands of Isabela (Albemarle), Fernandina (Narborough), Daphne, Santa Cruz (Indefatigable) and nearby islets.
barringtoni (Rothschild, 1898) - Santa Fe (Barrington) I.