Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Bahama Mockingbird, bahaman mockingbird, mockingbird, Spanish mockingbird, Spanish nightingale, Spanish thrasher
Common Names in French:
Moqueur des Bahamas
Common Names in German:
Gundlachspottdrossel
Common Names in Japanese:
バハママネシツグミ
Description
Physical Description
Adult : Head : grayish streaks Neck: grayish streaks Body: Flanks: gray streaking Underparts: gray-buff Upperparts: brownish gray with gray streaking.
Size/Age/Growth
About 11 inches long, with a wingspan of 15.5 to 15.5 inches. Adults weigh about 2.4 ounces .
Habitat
Vegetation: arid lowland scrubs, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub, tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.5 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.3 Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations
- 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest [more info]
Biology
Migration
Nonmigratory
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder:
Passeres
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) C. Linnaeus, 1766
- Superfamily:
Muscicapoidea
()
- Superfamily:
Muscicapoidea
(
- Suborder:
Passeres
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Northern Mockingbird
Members of the genus Mimus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. dorsalis (Brown-Backed Mockingbird) · M. gilvus (Graceful Mockingbird) · M. gilvus antelius (Blue-Gray Mockingbird) · M. gilvus gilvus (Tropical Mockingbird) · M. graysoni (Socorro Mockingbird) · M. gundlachii (Spanish Nightingale) · M. gundlachii gundlachii (Spanish Nightingale) · M. longicaudatus (Long-Tailed Mockingbird) · M. longicaudatus longicaudatus (Long-Tailed Mockingbird) · M. macdonaldi (Espanola Mockingbird) · M. melanotis (San Cristobal Mockingbird) · M. parvulus (Galapagos Mockingbird) · M. patagonicus (Patagonian Mockingbird) · M. polyglottos (Jamaican Mockingbird) · M. polyglottos leucopterus (Northern Mockingbird) · M. polyglottos polyglottos (Northern Mockingbird) · M. saturninus (Chalk-Browned Mockingbird) · M. thenca (Chilean Mocking-Bird) · M. trifasciatus (Charles Mockingbird) · M. triurus (White-Banded Mockingbird)
More Info
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Further Reading
- A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. url p. 542.
- A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 542.
- Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 479.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 224, p. 241, p. 242, p. 243, p. 244, p. 889.
- Bulletin from the laboratories of natural history of the State University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa: The University, 1888-[1918]. url p. 245.
- Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874- url p. 270.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1934 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1934. url p. 311.
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 344.
- Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 569, p. 807.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 445.
- Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 405, p. 456, p. 98.
- Journal of morphology. Boston: Ginn & Co., [1887-1924] url p. 282.
- Narrative and preliminary report of Bahama expedition, by C.C. Nutting. Iowa City, Iowa, By authority of the Regents, 1895 url p. 245.
- Second instalment of American ornithological bibliography. Washington[Govt. Print. Office]1879. url .
- The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 289, p. 416.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2009. Mimus gundlachii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
- Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5096
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178623
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13740505
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178623
- IUCN ID: 223827
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129908
