mockingbird

Acerca de mockingbird

Resumen

Los sinsontes son un grupo de aves paseriformes del Nuevo Mundo de la familia Mimidae. Son mejor conocidos por el hábito de algunas especies de imitar los cantos de otras aves y los sonidos de insectos y anfibios, a menudo de forma ruidosa y en rápida sucesión. Hay alrededor de 17 especies en dos géneros, aunque tres especies de sinsonte de las islas Galápagos se separaron anteriormente en un tercer género, Nesomimus. Los sinsontes no parecen formar un linaje monofilético, ya que Mimus y Melanotis no son parientes más cercanos entre sí; en cambio, Melanotis parece estar más estrechamente relacionado con los mirlos de agua, mientras que los parientes vivos más cercanos de Mimus parecen ser los cuitlacoches, como el cuitlacoche de artemisa. El único sinsonte que se encuentra comúnmente en América del Norte es el sinsonte norteño (Mimus polyglottos). La palabra griega significa 'múltiples idiomas'. Los sinsontes son conocidos por cantar hasta tarde en la noche, incluso pasada la medianoche. Species in taxonomic order Mimus: Brown-backed mockingbird, Mimus dorsalis Bahama mockingbird, Mimus gundlachii Long-tailed mockingbird, Mimus longicaudatus Patagonian mockingbird, Mimus patagonicus Chilean mockingbird, Mimus thenca White-banded mockingbird, Mimus triurus Northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos Socorro mockingbird, Mimus graysoni Tropical mockingbird, Mimus gilvus Chalk-browed mockingbird, Mimus saturninus Formerly Nesomimus (endemic to the Galapagos): Hood mockingbird, Mimus macdonaldi Galápagos mockingbird, Mimus parvulus Floreana mockingbird or Charles mockingbird, Mimus trifasciatus San Cristóbal mockingbird, Mimus melanotis Melanotis: Blue mockingbird, Melanotis caerulescens Blue-and-white mockingbird, Melanotis hypoleucus Charles Darwin

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Notable quotes

“The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.”
— Charles William Beebe, The Bird: Its Form and Function (1906).
“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
— John Heywood, Proverbs (1546), pt. 1, ch. 11
“I was always a lover of soft-winged things.”
— Victor Hugo, I Was Always a Lover.
“The francolin's voice is the glory of the fields.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection II at , .
““What is that?” I gasped, nearly blinded by the unexpected vermillion patches on the blackbird’s epaulets. I watched as the bird threw back its head, opened wide its beak and let out a sound so primal it left me marvelling: this was as close as I’d ever stand to dinosaurs. If this bird had been here all along, I thought, what else had I been missing?”
— Julia Zarankin, Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder (2020), , p. 23
“From nesting, brooding and sex, to metabolism, development and even the diseases that afflicted them, many of the traits found in birds today were inherited from the dinosaurs. The boundary between dinosaurs and birds has become utterly blurred.”
— John Pickrell (2014), Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds, Columbia University Press, p. xvii

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