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The Galapagos mockingbird has a whitish stripe behind its eye, blackish-brown lores and ear-patch, and a broad white collar. The crown is dark brown, and the upperparts are greyish-brown with darker brown streaks. The flight-feathers are dark brown with two white wing-bars. It is whitish below, with a few brownish streaks on the breast and flanks.
Galapagos mockingbird. Order: Passeriformes Family: Mimidae. Mockingbirds are an American group of passerine birds. In the Galápagos they are famous (along with Darwin's finches) for confirming Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Galapagos mockingbird, Mimus parvulus (E) Floreana mockingbird, Mimus trifasciatus (E)
The Hood mockingbird (Mimus macdonaldi), also known as the Española mockingbird, is a species of bird in the family Mimidae. It is endemic to Española Island in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, and it is one of four closely related mockingbird species endemic to the Galápagos archipelago. It is found in dry forests and is omnivorous, though ...
Striped Galapagos racer (Pseudalsophis steindachneri) Yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) Barrington leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus barringtonensis) Baur's leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus baurii) Darwin's leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus darwini) Española leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus gorii) Galapagos leaf-toed gecko ...
Galapagos mockingbird: Mimus parvulus: LC: 10 Floreana mockingbird: Mimus trifasciatus: EN: Also known as Charles Island mockingbird 11 Hood mockingbird: Mimus macdonaldi: VU: Also known as Española mockingbird 12 San Cristóbal mockingbird: Mimus melanotis: NT: Also known as Chatham mockingbird 13 Large ground finch: Geospiza magnirostris: LC: 14
Other significant species include lava gulls, Galapagos penguins, and at one point in time the locally extinct Floreana mockingbird. [24] When Charles Darwin visited the island in 1835, he found no sign of its native tortoise and assumed that whalers, pirates, and human settlers had wiped them out.
Image credits: Michael Buckner / Getty #3 Scott Disick. Boxes of Mounjaro, which is known for its weight loss effects, were found stacked in Scott Disick’s fridge on a past episode of The ...
San Cristóbal mockingbird Conservation status Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Mimidae Genus: Mimus Species: M. melanotis Binomial name Mimus melanotis (Gould, 1837) Synonyms Nesomimus melanotis The San Cristóbal mockingbird (Mimus melanotis) or Chatham mockingbird, is a species ...