Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus)
About the Tropical Mockingbird
The tropical mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) is a resident breeding bird from southern Mexico to northern and eastern South America and in the Lesser Antilles and other Caribbean islands. The tropical mockingbird has sometimes been considered conspecific with its closest living relative, the northern mockingbird (Milvus polyglottos) and forms a superspecies with it. The critically endangered Socorro mockingbird (M. graysoni) is also much closer to these two than previously believed. The tropical mockingbird has these ten subspecies: M. g. gracilis Cabanis, 1851 M. g. leucophaeus Ridgway, 1888 M. g. antillarum Hellmayr & Seilern, 1915 M. g. tobagensis Dalmas, 1900 M. g. rostratus Ridgway, 1884 M. g. melanopterus Lawrence, 1849 M. g. gilvus (Vieillot, 1808) M. g. tolimensis Ridgway, 1904
A real field recording of the Tropical Mockingbird. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Guatemala and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 257 recordings for this species in total.
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- Bahama MockingbirdMimus gundlachiiprofile
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- Chilean MockingbirdMimus thencaprofile
- Espanola MockingbirdMimus macdonaldiprofile
- Floreana MockingbirdMimus trifasciatusprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.