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  Mimids 'Mimic Thrushes'

Gray Catbird

(Dumetella carolinensis)

Family: Mimidae
Common Family Grouping:
Mimids "Mimic Thrushes"
4-Letter Species Code: grca
Size: Small

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   Rio Arriba County

   Taos

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Gray Catbird


Season - Abundance Status:
Migrant Summer Breeder - Common

Link to USGS Site with more information: USGS

Hear sounds of Gray Catbird at xeno-canto.org

Sage Thrasher

(Oreoscoptes montanus)

Family: Mimidae
Common Family Grouping:
Mimids "Mimic Thrushes"
4-Letter Species Code: sath
Size: Small

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   La Cieneguilla, Santa Fe County

   La Cieneguilla, Santa Fe County

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Sage Thrasher


Season - Abundance Status:
Migrant Summer Breeder - Rare

Link to USGS Site with more information: USGS

Hear sounds of Sage Thrasher at xeno-canto.org

Northern Mockingbird

(Mimus polyglottos)

Family: Mimidae
Common Family Grouping:
Mimids "Mimic Thrushes"
4-Letter Species Code: nomo
Size: Medium

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   Rio Arriba County

Juvenile   Rio Arriba County

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Northern Mockingbird


Season - Abundance Status:
Migrant Summer Breeder - Rare

Link to USGS Site with more information: USGS

Hear sounds of Northern Mockingbird at xeno-canto.org

Range data provided by Infonatura/Natureserve. Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Alnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2005 Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 2.1 NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA

eBird and CBC Graphs created with Google Charts: https://developers.google.com/chart

Data for CBC Graph: National Audubon Society (2020). The Christmas Bird Count Historical Results Online. Available http://www.christmasbirdcount.org November, 2020

Data for eBird Graph: eBird. 2021. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed: January 7, 2021).