Chilean mockingbird

The Chilean mockingbird (Mimus thenca) locally known as tenca[2] is a species of bird in the family Mimidae.[3] It primarily inhabits Chile's northern half, though there are sightings in Argentina.[4][5]

Tenca, Chilean mockingbird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Mimidae
Genus: Mimus
Species:
M. thenca
Binomial name
Mimus thenca
(Molina, 1782)

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and heavily degraded former forest. An example habitat is the dry shrub and forest of La Campana National Park.[6]

Notes

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Mimus thenca". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Aves de Chile
  3. BirdLife International. 2004
  4. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ retrieved 18 August 2017
  5. Pearman, Mark and Nacho Areta. 2017. Species lists of birds for South American countries and territories: Argentina. Version of 1 April 2017. http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm Retrieved 6 April 2017
  6. C. Michael Hogan. 2008

References

Citizen science observations for Chilean mockingbird at iNaturalist


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