Galapagos Mockingbird
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
Galapagos Mockingbird
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
The Galapagos mockingbird is one of four mockingbird species endemic to the Galapagos Islands. These four are all closely related, and DNA evidence shows they likely all descended from an ancestor species which reached the islands in a single colonization event. When John Gould first described the species in 1837, based on specimens brought back from the islands by Charles Darwin, he named it Orpheus parvulus. However, because of the rules of binomial nomenclature, Orpheus was declared a junior synonym, and in 1841, George Robert Gray moved all of the Orpheus mockingbirds to the older genus Mimus. In 1890, Robert Ridgway created the genus Nesomimus for the mockingbirds found on the Galápagos Islands, and most taxonomists adopted the change. Recent DNA studies, however, show that the Nesomimus mockingbirds fall within the traditional Mimus genus, making the latter paraphyletic, so some taxonomists have moved them back into Mimus.
FEATURED 4/17/17 in "Kingdom Animalia"
FEATURED 4/18/17 in "FAA Portraits Birds"
FEATURED 7/28/17 in "Wild Birds Of The World"
FEATURED 6/13/21 in "Macro Marvels"
FEATURED 6/13/21 in "Animal Photographs"
FEATURED 6/19/21 in "The Wonder of Wings"
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April 16th, 2017
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Comments (6)
Gary F Richards
Outstanding composition, lighting, shading, color and artwork! F/L Congratulations on your features!
William Tasker
Stunning and soft, Venetia! Your beautiful image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World, a nature photography group. L/F
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you William and for the feature in "Wild Birds of The World" and the L/F
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Thank you Miroslava and thank you for the feature in "Kingdom Animalia" :)
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