Species: Mimus polyglottos
Northern Mockingbird
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Mimidae
Genus
Mimus
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Centzontle Norteño - moqueur polyglotte
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Mimidae - Mimus - Hybridizes with and considered conspecific with M. GILVUS by some authors (AOU 1998). Phillips (1986) recognized the Saint Andrews Island population (formerly M. GILVUS) as a distinct species, M. MAGNIROSTRIS. Placed in Sturnidae in Sibley and Ahlquist (1984).
Ecology and Life History
Migration
true - false - false - Populations at northern edge of breeding range partially migratory southward for winter.
Non-migrant
true
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Diet of adults and nestlings mainly insects and other invertebrates and small fruits (Terres 1980).
Reproduction Comments
Clutch size 3-6 (usually 4-5). Two to 3 broods per year. Incubation 11-17 days, by female. Young tended by both parents, leave nest at 10-24 days (usually < 2 weeks). May retain same mate through successive nesting attempts in single season and through successive years. Sometimes polygynous.
Length
25
Weight
49
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-12-03
Global Status Last Changed
1996-12-03
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Resident regularly from northern California and eastern Oregon to South Dakota, northern Ohio, and southern New England (sporatically or locally north to southern Canada), south to southern Baja California, southern Mexico, Gulf Coast, southern Florida, and western West Indies (including Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands). First known successful nesting in British Columbia occurred in 1993 (MacKenzie et al. 1995, Canadian Field-Naturalist 109:260). Introduced and established in Hawaii, Bermuda.