Tropical Mockingbird

Mimus gilvus - Moqueur des savanes

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Passeriformes

  • Family
    :

    Mimidés

  • Genus
    :

    Mimus

  • Species
    :

    gilvus

Descriptor

Vieillot, 1808

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 26 cm
  • Wingspan
    : -
  • Weight
    :
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Moqueur des savanes
adult
Moqueur des savanes
adult plum. transition

Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) is a species of bird in the Mimidae family.

Subspecific information 10 subspecies

  • Mimus gilvus gilvus (Suriname and French Guiana)
  • Mimus gilvus gracilis (s Mexico to Honduras and El Salvador)
  • Mimus gilvus leucophaeus (Yucatán Pen.. se Mexico. and Cozumel I. (off se Mexico))
  • Mimus gilvus antillarum (Lesser Antilles south from Antigua)
  • Mimus gilvus tobagensis (Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Mimus gilvus rostratus (islands off n Venezuela)
  • Mimus gilvus melanopterus (n Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and n Brazil)
  • Mimus gilvus tolimensis (e El Salvador to c Panama, w and c Colombia to n Ecuador)
  • Mimus gilvus antelius (ne and e Brazil)
  • Mimus gilvus magnirostris (San Andrés I.. off e Nicaragua.)

Foreign names

  • Moqueur des savanes,
  • Sinsonte tropical,
  • sabiá-da-praia,
  • Tropenspottdrossel,
  • Tropische Spotlijster,
  • Mimo tropicale,
  • tropikhärmtrast,
  • Tropespottefugl,
  • spevák tropický,
  • drozdec tropický,
  • Tropespottedrossel,
  • tropiikkimatkija,
  • mim de les sabanes,
  • przedrzeźniacz siwy,
  • Тропический певчий пересмешник,
  • フナシマネシツグミ,
  • 热带小嘲鸫,
  • 熱帶小嘲鶇,

Voice song and cries

Moqueur des savanes
adult plum. breeding

Habitat

Moqueur des savanes
adult

Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland ; Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Rural Gardens, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

QRcode Moqueur des savanes
published: - Updated: 11-03-2009
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