Galapagos mockingbird  (Mimus parvulus)

Authenticated (01/07/09) by Paquita Hoeck, University of Zurich.
http://www.zm.uzh.ch/zmneu/englisch/forschung_e/forscher_e.php?id=23

• Endemic: a species or taxonomic group that is only found in one particular country or geographic area.
• Incubated: the act of keeping eggs warm so that development is possible.
• Subspecies: a population usually restricted to a geographical area that differs from other populations of the same species, but not to the extent of being classified as a separate species.

1. IUCN Red List (November, 2008)
   http://www.iucnredlist.org/
2. del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (2005) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 10: Cuckoo-Shrikes to Thrushes.Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
3. Robert L. Curry, Department of Biology, Villanova University (November, 2008)
   http://www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.curry/
4. Darwin, C.R. (1845) Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 2nd edition.John Murray, London.
5. Charles Darwin Foundation. (2006) Charles Darwin Research Station Fact Sheet: Mockingbirds (Nesomimus spp).Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands (AISBL), Galapagos, Ecuador. Available at: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/files/species/pdf/mockingbird-en.pdf
6. Hoeck, P. (2009) Pers. comm.
7. Burnie, D. (2001) Animal.Dorling Kindersley, London.
8. Curry, R.L. and Anderson, D.J. (1987) Interisland variation in blood-feeding by Galapagos Mockingbirds. Auk, 104: 517 - 521.