Bahama Mockingbird

Mimus gundlachiiOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)

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Bahama Mockingbird

Bahama Mockingbird: Medium mockingbird with gray-brown upperparts and dark-streaked, pale gray underparts. Wings are dark with two white bars and white feather edges. Tail is long and white-tipped. Legs and feet are dark gray. Eats insects, spiders, small reptiles, berries and fruits.

● Song: "cheewee, chipwee, chipwoo, cheewoo"

● Foraging & Feeding: Bahama Mockingbird: Eats various insects, spiders, berries, fruits, and occasionally small reptiles.

● Breeding & nesting: Bahama Mockingbird: Two to six creamy white to light pink eggs with brown marks are laid in a cup nest made of sticks, stems, dried leaves, fiber, paper, bits of fabric, and string, and lined with finer materials. Nest is built by both parents in a shrub or low tree. Incubation ranges from 12 to 13 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Bahama Mockingbird: Northern Mockingbird is smaller, grayer overall with white wing patches, white outer tail feathers on black tail, and lacks streaks on neck, back, and flanks.

Flight Pattern

Rather swift direct flight with purposeful wing strokes.

Bahama Mockingbird Breeding Male Body Illustration

● Range & Habitat: Bahama Mockingbird: Breeds throughout the Bahama Islands south to the Turks Bank north of Hispaniola, on cays along the northern coast of Cuba, and in an isolated region of dry limestone forests along the southern Jamaican coast. In Florida, the Bahama Mockingbird is rare but regular along the southeast coast. Preferred habitats include dry scrub.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationRare in North America

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight2.4 Ounces

Field Guide to Birds of North America