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Chalk-browed mockingbird

Mimus saturninus · Family Mimidae

Mimus saturninus

Family Mimidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Mimidae
GBIF occurrence records
368,350
Countries and territories with records
7
Chalk-browed mockingbird
EvaldoResende · Mimus saturninus.01.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · EvaldoResende · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Gabriele Magurno · Mimus_saturninus_-_Chalk-browed_Mockingbird_XC204967.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gabriele Magurno · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 368,350 occurrence records from 7 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Argentina (47%), Brazil (42.8%), Uruguay (7.8%) and Paraguay (1.8%); together they account for 99.3% of the total. In Argentina, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Mimus saturninus combines the genus name Mimus with the species epithet saturninus. 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 gilvus and Mimus thenca.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Mimidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Mimus polyglottos. Its record count is 44.3% of the family average (830,852). The family Mimidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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