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Mockingbirds

Order: Passeriformes Family: Mimidae Links: Mockingbirds

Medium-sized passerine birds with long tails. Some are notable for their ability to mimic sounds such as other birds’ songs. There are about 35 species worldwide, 3 have occurred as vagrants in Britain.

Bird

Latin

Links

Notes

Northern Mockingbird

Mimus polyglottos

Northern Mockingbird

very rare vagrant

Brown Thrasher

Toxostoma rufum

Brown Thrasher

one record

Gray Catbird

Dumetella carolinensis

Gray Catbird

one record in Wales

 

 

 


By: Keith Park Section: Wildlife Key:
Page Ref: mockingbirds Topic: Birds  Last Updated: 03/2010
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