Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Mimidae
The mimids are the New World family of passerine birds, Mimidae, that includes thrashers, mockingbirds, tremblers, and the New World catbirds. As their name (Latin for "mimic") suggests, these birds are notable for their vocalization, especially some species' remarkable ability to mimic a wide variety of birds and other sounds heard outdoors. They are commonly referred to as mimic thrushes but are not, in fact, thrushes (which are members of family Turdidae).
10 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 35 known species
Typical Mockingbirds
genusMimus
Typical Thrashers
genusToxostoma
Dumetella
genusDumetella
Oreoscoptes
genusOreoscoptes
Blue Mockingbirds
genusMelanotis
Margarops
genusMargarops
Melanoptila
genusMelanoptila
Allenia
genusAllenia
Tremblers
genusCinclocerthia
White-breasted Thrashers
genusRamphocinclus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 59911.