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