page_title: List of birds of Kansas
section_title: Mockingbirds and thrashers
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Kansas / Mockingbirds and thrashers
context_page_description: This list of birds of Kansas includes species documented in the U.S. state of Kansas and accepted by the Kansas Ornithological Society. As of March 2020, there are 479 species included in the official list. Of them, 70 are classed as accidental, 12 are classed as hypothetical, and five have been introduced to North America. In addition to the 479, two species are extinct and one has been extirpated.
  Only birds that are considered to have established, self-sustaining, wild populations in Kansas are included on this list. This means that birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free in Kansas, are not included.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  These tags are used to annotate some species:
  Accidental – "Fewer than ten Kansas records" per the KOS
  Extinct – a recent species that no longer exists
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Mimidae
  The mimids are a family of passerine birds which includes thrashers, mockingbirds, tremblers, and the New World catbirds. These birds are notable for their vocalization, especially their remarkable ability to mimic a wide variety of birds and other sounds heard outdoors. The species tend towards dull grays and browns in their appearance.
  Gray catbird, Dumetella carolinensis
  Curve-billed thrasher, Toxostoma curvirostre
  Brown thrasher, Toxostoma rufum
  Sage thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus
  Northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos
caption: Brown thrasher
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