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Bahama Mockingbird
Mimus gundlachii
Audubon Illustration
John James Audubon, Birds of America (1827-1838). Public domain.
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About the Bahama Mockingbird
The Bahama mockingbird (Mimus gundlachii) is a species of bird in the family Mimidae. It is found in the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and is a vagrant to Florida.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Mimus gundlachii
- Family
- Mockingbirds and Thrashers
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the mockingbirds and thrashers family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Bendire's Thrasher Toxostoma bendirei
- Black Catbird Melanoptila glabrirostris
- Blue Mockingbird Melanotis caerulescens
- Blue-and-white Mockingbird Melanotis hypoleucus
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- California Thrasher Toxostoma redivivum
- Cozumel Thrasher Toxostoma guttatum
- Crissal Thrasher Toxostoma crissale
- Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
- Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Gray Thrasher Toxostoma cinereum
- LeConte's Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei
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