Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)
Blue-and-white Mockingbird (Melanotis hypoleucus) - HBW 10, p. 480
French: Moqueur bleu et blanc
German: Lasurspottdrossel
Spanish: Mulato Pechiblanco
Taxonomy: Melanotis hypoleucus Hartlaub, 1852, Guatemala.
Probably forms a superspecies with M. caerulescens; was in the past sometimes considered conspecific, but this view based on aberrant specimens of race longirostris of latter. Monotypic.
Distribution: SE Mexico (Chiapas) E to Honduras and N El Salvador.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in a tree, looking around and flying away, frist at normal speed and repeated at slow motion (25%). Locality Sumidero Canyon, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 8 April 2009 2 years ago 31 sec 4 -
A bird in a tree, singing. Locality El Triunfo Camp, El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 March 2009 2 years ago 43 sec 3.5 -
A poor view of a bird on a branch, singing and then moving away. Locality San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 8 April 2009 2 years ago 18 sec 2
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An adult on a branch.
Locality Chelemhá Cloud Forest Reserve, Alta Verapaz Department, Guatemala (Monotypic species)
Knut Eisermann 16 July 2006 3 years ago 4 -
A bird in a tree.
Locality Sumidero Canyon, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 8 April 2009 2 years ago 3.3
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A bird singing in a tree.
Locality San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern)
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 8 April 2009 2 years ago 4 -
A bird singing close to a river.
Locality El Triunfo Camp, El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern)
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 March 2009 2 years ago 3
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