Bahama mockingbird

Bahama mockingbird
In Ciego de Avila Province, Cuba
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.

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