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 LC    Tropical Mockingbird* Id (Atlas):
    Mimus gilvus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Tropical Mockingbird, San Andres Mockingbird (magnirostris), St Andrew Mockingbird (magnirostris), Large-billed Mockingbird (magnirostris), Blue-grey Mockingbird (antelius), Blue-gray Mockingbird (antelius)

Family
Mimidae (Mockingbirds And Thrashers)

Size
23 - 25.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1808)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, high altitude shrubland. From sea-level - 2,500 m, occasionally to 3,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Dominica, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Unknown to Ecuador.

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 (56)...)

 
Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) [XC588298]
     by Mario Reyes Jr from Fusagasug\u00e1, Cundinamarca, Barrio Manila, Trinidad & Tobago (begging call, call, hatchling or nestling)

 
Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) [XC310064]
     by Nick Komar from Big Pond, San Andres isla, Colombia (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies, and sometimes considered conspecific, with Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos). Apparent hybrids between the two reported in southern Mexico. Subspecies magnirostris sometimes treated as a separate species; antelius may also merit elevation to full species level. Population of tolimensis in Pacific lowlands of Central America (El Salvador south to Panama) originates largely from escaped cagebirds imported from Colombia.

The following 10 subspecies are recognised:

  • gracilis Cabanis, 1850   -  Southern Mexico (eastern from eastern Veracruz and eastern Oaxaca) south to Honduras and El Salvador.
  • leucophaeus Ridgway, 1888   -  Yucatán Peninsula, Cozumel I and other offshore islands.
  • magnirostris Cory, 1887   -  San Andrés I, in south-western Caribbean (off eastern Nicaragua).
  • rostratus Ridgway, 1884   -  Southern Caribbean islands (Aruba east to Blanquilla).
  • antillarum Hellmayr & Seilern, 1915   -  Lesser Antilles southern from Antigua.
  • tolimensis Ridgway, 1904   -  Eastern El Salvador south to Costa Rica and central Panama, and western and central Colombia south to extreme northern Ecuador.
  • melanopterus Lawrence, 1849   -  Northern and north-eastern Colombia, most of Venezuela (including Margarita I and Los Testigos), Guyana and northern Brazil (Roraima).
  • tobagensis Dalmas, 1900   -  Trinidad and Tobago.
  • gilvus (Vieillot, 1808)   -  Suriname and French Guiana.
  • antelius Oberholser, 1919   -  Coastal north-eastern and eastern Brazil (south to Rio de Janeiro).



References
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Files:
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