Bahama Mockingbird | |
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In Ciego de Avila Province, Cuba | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Mimidae |
Genus: | Mimus |
Species: | M. gundlachii |
Binomial name | |
Mimus gundlachii Cabanis, 1855 |
The Bahama Mockingbird (Mimus gundlachii) is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It is found in the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and is a vagrant to the United States. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.