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Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
SACC. 2005 and updates. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: #http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm#.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2020	Least Concern
2018	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2012	Least Concern
2009	Least Concern
2008	Least Concern
2004	Least Concern
2000	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1994	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1988	Lower Risk/Least Concern

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	low
Land-mass type		Average mass	46 g

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence breeding/resident (km2)	14,600,000	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Value	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Number of mature individuals	500000-4999999	poor	estimated	2009
Population trend	increasing		suspected	-
Generation length (years)	3.4	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population is estimated to number 500,000-4,999,999 mature individuals (Partners in Flight 2019).

Trend justification:

This species has undergone a large, significant increase between 1970 and 2014 (Partners in Flight 2019). The species thrives in converted habitats (del Hoyo et al. 2005); it is therefore suspected to be increasing as deforestation is opening up new areas of suitable habitat.

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding	Non-breeding	Passage
Antigua and Barbuda	extant	native	yes
Aruba (to Netherlands)	extant	native	yes
Barbados	extant	vagrant
Belize	extant	native	yes
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (to Netherlands)	extant	native	yes
Brazil	extant	native	yes
Colombia	extant	native	yes
Costa Rica	extant	introduced	yes
Curaçao (to Netherlands)	extant	native	yes
Dominica	extant	native	yes
Ecuador	extant	native	yes
El Salvador	extant	native	yes
French Guiana	extant	native	yes
Grenada	extant	native	yes
Guadeloupe (to France)	extant	native	yes
Guatemala	extant	native	yes
Guyana	extant	native	yes
Honduras	extant	native	yes
Martinique (to France)	extant	native	yes
Mexico	extant	native	yes
Nicaragua	extant	native	yes
Panama	extant	introduced	yes
Peru	extant	vagrant
St Lucia	extant	native	yes
St Vincent and the Grenadines	extant	native	yes
Suriname	extant	native	yes
Trinidad and Tobago	extant	native	yes
USA	extant	vagrant
Venezuela	extant	native	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable Land	suitable	resident
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rural Gardens	suitable	resident
Artificial/Terrestrial	Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	suitable	resident
Savanna	Dry	suitable	resident
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	major	resident
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude	suitable	resident
Altitude	0 - 2500 m	Occasional altitudinal limits	(max) 3100 m

Purpose	Primary form used	Life stage used	Source	Scale	Level	Timing
Pets/display animals, horticulture	-	-			non-trivial	recent

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Species factsheet: Mimus gilvus. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/tropical-mockingbird-mimus-gilvus on 26/09/2023. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2023) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org on 26/09/2023.