Mimus longicaudatus
            
               (L 11.5 Wt 1.9 to 2.8 oz)
          
         
            
               Restricted in desert and dry
               forest along the western Pacific
               Coast of Ecuador and Peru.
          
         
            
               Road from Buenaventura
               Reserve to Machara
            
               14Feb2013
          
         
            
               Oh, mockingbird
            
               That you could sing your own song.
            
               (Devin Weaver)
          
         
            
               Mimus means mimic or imitator;
               longicaudatus means long tail.
          
         
         
            
               © Charles P.
               Nicholson
            
               Macaulay
               Library