About Mimus macdonaldi (Ridgway, 1890)
This species is a Galápagos mockingbird, similar to other species in this group. It has mottled gray and brown plumage with a white underbelly, and its long tail and legs give it a distinctive appearance. It possesses a long, thin beak that it uses to tap into seabird eggs, and this bill is the largest among all Galápagos mockingbird species. Along with the other Galápagos mockingbirds, this species is most closely related to the Bahama mockingbird (Mimus gundlachii), even though Ecuador’s long-tailed mockingbird (Mimus longicaudatus) is geographically closer to it. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. This species is found only on Española Island, where it occurs across the island’s dry scrub areas.
