#1410 · 🐦 birds

Tropical Mockingbird

🇳🇱 Tropische Spotlijster ·Mimus gilvus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The tropical mockingbird ( Mimus gilvus ) is a resident breeding bird from southern Mexico south to northern Brazil, and in the Lesser Antilles and other Caribbean islands. The birds in Panama and Trinidad may have been introduced. The northern mockingbird ( M. polyglottos ) is its closest living relative, but the critically endangered Socorro mockingbird ( M. graysoni ) is also much closer to these two than previously believed .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 23,302iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
23,302 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1808 (218 years ago).