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 LC    Blue Mockingbird* Id (Atlas):
    Melanotis caerulescens Endemic

Description (10)
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Family
Mimidae (Mockingbirds And Thrashers)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1827)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, montane moist forest. From sea-level - 3,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Mexico, USA.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (142)...)

 
Blue Mockingbird (Melanotis caerulescens) [XC352206]
     by from Reserva de la Chara Pinta (Tufted Jay Preserve), Sinaloa, Mexico (song)

 
Blue Mockingbird (Melanotis caerulescens) [XC630959]
     by Manuel Grosselet from MX Distrito federal la Loma baja, Mexico (song)

Subspecies
Probably forms a superspecies with Blue-and-white Mockingbird (Melanotis hypoleucus) and was in the past sometimes considered conspecific, but this view based on aberrant specimens of subspecies longirostris.

Proposed subspecies effuticus (from western Mexico) generally regarded as indistinguishable from nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • caerulescens (Swainson, 1827)   -  Western, eastern and southern Mexico (Sonora and south-eastern Chihuahua south to Oaxaca, and south-western Tamaulipas south to Puebla and western Veracruz).
  • longirostris Nelson, 1898   -  Tres Marí­as Is, off western Mexico.



References
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Files:
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