Endangered
Floreana mockingbird
Mimus trifasciatus
Floreana mockingbird is a perching bird in the family Mimidae (order Passeriformes) — Mimus trifasciatus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Their crown, upperparts, and tail are grayish brown with a few faint darker streaks. The folded wing shows two white bars.
The Floreana mockingbird is 25 to 26 cm (9.8 to 10.2 in) long.
Range and habitat
The Floreana mockingbird was formerly abundant on Floreana Island but had been extirpated from there by 1888. It now occurs only on two islets off Floreana's shore, Campeón and Gardner-near-Floreana. The islets provide a habitat of low vegetation along their shores and arid scrub with cacti and a few trees inland.
The Floreana mockingbird or the Charles Island mockingbird, is a bird in the family Mimidae. It was endemic to Floreana, one of the Galápagos Islands, but now is found only on two nearby islets, Campeón and Gardner-near-Floreana.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Floreana mockingbird mostly forages on the ground, but also in vegetation. The Floreana mockingbird's breeding season spans from October to April and two broods are usual.
It is a cooperative breeder with up to five adults in each territory of about 2 ha (4.9 acres). The nest is a cup made of twigs lined with finer material. It is almost always placed in a cactus.
In crisis
Floreana mockingbird is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Floreana mockingbird, Wikidata item Q3285195. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
