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Tropical mockingbird
Mimus gilvus · Family Mimidae
Mimus gilvus
Family Mimidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Mimidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 611,646
- Countries and territories with records
- 36
About this species
This species has 611,646 occurrence records from 36 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (21.2%), Mexico (18.1%), Venezuela (11%), Belize (9.8%) and Panama (9.2%); together they account for 69.2% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.48% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Mimus gilvus combines the genus name Mimus with the species epithet gilvus. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Mimus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Mimus polyglottos, Mimus saturninus and Mimus thenca.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Mimidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Mimus polyglottos. Its record count is 73.6% of the family average (830,852). The family Mimidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.