Species profile
Black Catbird
Melanoptila glabrirostris
Quick answer
Coastal e Mexico (Yucatán Pen. and adj. islands) to n Honduras
- Scientific name
- Melanoptila glabrirostris
- Family
- Mimidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Melanoptila
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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Related species in Mimidae
- Bahama Mockingbird (Mimus gundlachii)
- Bendire's Thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei)
- Blue Mockingbird (Melanotis caerulescens)
- Blue-and-white Mockingbird (Melanotis hypoleucus)
- Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)
- Brown Trembler (Cinclocerthia ruficauda)
- Brown-backed Mockingbird (Mimus dorsalis)
- California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum)