Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Passeriformes — themockingbirds andthrashers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are two other members of the Mimidae often found on the East Coast.
City Bird aka TBTAM 2009
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"Reedlings" is just too twee; "real" babblers look like New World thrashers Mimidae...
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Lovette & Rubenstein [12]: "at least one representative of all morphologically or biogeographically distinctive lineages in the Sturnidae and Mimidae".
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Lovette & Rubenstein [12]: "at least one representative of all morphologically or biogeographically distinctive lineages in the Sturnidae and Mimidae".
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David G. Haskell et al. 2009
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I realized that this bird was clearly not a Long-billed Thrasher, nor was it any other exotic or misplaced member of the Thrasher and Mockingbird family, Mimidae.
Homepage 2009
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I did a computer search and found that abnormally long bills are rare, but certainly not unknown among the Mimidae.
Homepage 2009
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Sturnidae) and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae): congruent mtDNA and nuclear trees for a cosmopolitan avian radiation.
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