Chilean Mockingbird
Mimus thenca(Molina, GI, 1782)
English (US) Chilean Mockingbird
The Chilean Mockingbird (Mimus thenca) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Mimidae (Mockingbirds and Thrashers) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: coastal Chile (Atacama to Valdivia)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Mimus thenca
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Chilean Mockingbird
- Described by
- (Molina, GI, 1782)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Turdus thenca
- Described by
- (Molina, GI, 1782)
- Type locality
- Chile.
- Original description
- Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili p.250,345
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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