Chilean mockingbird

Tenca, Chilean mockingbird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Mimidae
Genus: Mimus
Species: M. thenca
Binomial name
Mimus thenca
(Molina, 1782)

The Chilean mockingbird (Mimus thenca) locally known as tenca[2] is a species of bird in the Mimidae family.[3] It inhabits Chile and Argentina.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and heavily degraded former forest. An example habitat is the dry shrub and forest of La Campana National Park.[4] In Argentina it inhabits the dry Patagonian steppes.[5]

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