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Different views of Charles Darwin's Floreana mockingbird specimen.
Biology Letters: Saving Darwin's muse
Birdlife International: Floreana mockingbird
Darwin’s mockingbirds DNA research may help species recovery
Galapagos Conservation Trust: Saving the Floreana mockingbird
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
Mimus trifasciatus
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Watch a video to find out how mockingbirds, not finches, gave Charles Darwin his ideas about evolution
Darwin’s mockingbirds DNA research may help species recovery
Tring: Research and curation
External links
Biology Letters: Saving Darwin's muse
BirdLife International: Floreana mockingbird
California Academy of Sciences
Charles Darwin Foundation
Dirección del Parque Nacional Galápagos
Galapagos Conservation Trust: Saving the Floreana mockingbird
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
Mimus trifasciatus
Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich
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