Tropical Mockingbird

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Mimidae

Genus

Mimus

eBird Code

tromoc

Vocalizations

Subspecies (10)

• Mimus gilvus antelius

  coastal eastern Brazil (Pará to Rio de Janeiro)

• Mimus gilvus antillarum

  Antigua to Grenada (Lesser Antilles; range expanding north)

• Mimus gilvus gilvus

  French Guiana and Suriname

• Mimus gilvus gracilis

  southern Mexico (eastern Oaxaca) to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and western Nicaragua

• Mimus gilvus leucophaeus

  humid tropical southeastern Mexico, including Cozumel and Isla Mujeres, and Belize

• Mimus gilvus magnirostris

  Isla San Andrés (western Caribbean Sea)

• Mimus gilvus melanopterus

  coastal northern Colombia to Venezuela, Guyana, and far northern Brazil

• Mimus gilvus rostratus

  Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, and adjacent islands off the north coast of Venezuela

• Mimus gilvus tobagensis

  Trinidad and Tobago

• Mimus gilvus tolimensis

  southern Nicaragua southward to western Ecuador and central Colombia; range has expanded both northward and southward from Colombia since the 1990s