#1426 · 🐦 birds

Chalk-browed Mockingbird

🇳🇱 Camposspotlijster ·Mimus saturninus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Quentin Vandemoortele · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Diego Caballero · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Evandro · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © eduardovieira17 · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
6. © Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
7. © Jorge Schlemmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Carmelo López Abad · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The chalk-browed mockingbird ( Mimus saturninus ) is a bird found in most of Brazil, and parts of Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Suriname. It's a bird of open wooded areas, including urban and suburban gardens. It feeds on fruits, insects and small vertebrates.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 21,565iNaturalist 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.
21,565 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1823 (203 years ago).