Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Mimidae
Genera
Melanotis Mimus Nesomimus Mockingbird, a term most commonly meaning a bird known for its mimicking habits, can also refer to: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee, Book Mockingbird, a Nebula Award-nominating 1980 novel by Walter Tevis; Mockingbird, a 1998 novel by Sean Stewart; Mockingbird, a fictional superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 521 pixelsFull resolution (1054 × 687 pixel, file size: 421 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Description: Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Creator: Ryan Hagerty URL: Fish and Wildlife Service File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file... Binomial name Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) The Northern Mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos, is the mockingbird commonly found in North America. ... For other uses, see Scientific classification (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation). ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... For other uses, see Bird (disambiguation). ... Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ... Genera Allenia Cinclocerthia Dumetella Margarops Melanoptila Melanotis Mimodes Mimus Nesomimus Oreoscoptes Ramphocinclus Toxostoma The Mimids are a New World family of passerine birds that includes thrashers, mockingbirds, tremblers, and the New World catbirds. ... Melanotis is a genus of bird in the Mimidae family. ... Mimus is a genus of bird in the Mimidae family. ... Nesomimus is a genus of bird in the Mimidae family, the mockingbirds, catbirds and thrashers. ...

Mockingbirds are a group of New World passerine birds from the Mimidae family. They are best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of other birds, often loudly and in rapid succession. Mockingbirds also have a reputation of being fierce defenders of their nests. Both male and female mockingbirds will attack or feign diving attacks on both domestic and wild felines, canines, crows and other birds, as well as humans who venture too close to their nest. Other defensive tactics involve aggressive vocalizations and adults acting wounded on the ground as a lure to draw predators away from the nest site. Frontispiece of Peter Martyr dAnghieras De orbe novo (On the New World). Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, 1722. ... Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ... For other uses, see Bird (disambiguation). ... Genera Allenia Cinclocerthia Dumetella Margarops Melanoptila Melanotis Mimodes Mimus Nesomimus Oreoscoptes Ramphocinclus Toxostoma The Mimids are a New World family of passerine birds that includes thrashers, mockingbirds, tremblers, and the New World catbirds. ... The hierarchy of scientific classification In biological classification, family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is a rank, or a taxon in that rank. ...

Most species are tropical, but the Northern Mockingbird breeds throughout the United States and Canada. There are about 17 species in three genera. These do not appear to form a monophyletic lineage: Mimus and Nesomimus are quite closely related; their closest living relatives appear to be some thrashers, such as the Sage Thrasher. Melanotis is more distinct; it seems to represent a very ancient basal lineage of Mimidae.(Hunt et al. 2001, Barber et al. 2004) The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ... Binomial name Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) The Northern Mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos, is the mockingbird commonly found in North America. ... For other uses, see Species (disambiguation). ... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... In phylogenetics, a group is monophyletic (Greek: of one stem) if all organisms in that group are known to have developed from a common ancestral form, and all descendants of that form are included in the group. ... Mimus is a genus of bird in the Mimidae family. ... Nesomimus is a genus of bird in the Mimidae family, the mockingbirds, catbirds and thrashers. ... Genera Margarops Oreoscoptes Ramphocinclus Toxostoma Thrashers are a New World group of passerine birds related to mockingbirds and New World catbirds. ... Binomial name Oreoscoptes montanus (Townsend, 1837) The Sage Thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus, is a medium-sized passerine bird from the family Mimidae, which also includes mockingbirds and the Gray Catbird. ... Melanotis is a genus of bird in the Mimidae family. ... In phylogenetics, basal members of a group diverged earlier than a subgroup of others (or vice versa). ...