Chilean mockingbird

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)

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

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. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  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

  • AvesdeChile.cl
  • C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Chilean Wine Palm: Jubaea chilensis, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
  • H. Matarasso and R. Seró López. 2008. La Tenca en la provincia de Neuquén: una nueva especie para Argentina. El Hornero. ISSN 1850-4884, Buenos Aires.


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