Floreana Mockingbird

Floreana Mockingbird
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Mimidae
Genus:	Mimus
Species:	N. trifasciatus
Binomial name
Mimus trifasciatus (Gould, 1837)
Synonyms
Nesomimus trifasciatus

The Floreana Mockingbird or Charles Mockingbird (Mimus trifasciatus) is a bird species in the family Mimidae.

It is endemic to Floreana, one of the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador; at present it only occurs on offshore islets however. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Formerly classified as an Endangered species by the IUCN,^[1] recent research shows that its numbers are decreasing more and more rapidly, and it is on the brink of extinction. It is consequently uplisted to Critically Endangered status in 2008.^[2]

Re-population efforts

Today, two small sub-populations are extant on the small satellite islets of Champion and Gardner-by-Floreana.^[3] They are due to be re-introduced as a third, possibly hybridized population on Floreana (due to genetic compatibility and hybrid viability revealed through analysis of the Darwin-Fitzroy collections) ^[4]

See also

• Galápagos Mockingbird
• Hood Mockingbird
• San Cristobal Mockingbird

Footnotes

1. ^ BLI (2004)
2. ^ BLI (2008)
3. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8364778.stm
4. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8364778.stm

References

• BirdLife International (BLI) (2004). Mimus trifasciatus. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 26 July 2007.
• BirdLife International (BLI) (2008): [2008 IUCN Redlist status changes]. Retrieved 2008-MAY-23.

External links

• BirdLife Species Factsheet.

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