Española Mockingbird Photo by Olivia Noonan

Mimus macdonaldi

Juvenile

©Olivia Noonan

Location: Ecuador > Galápagos
Date: Apr 28, 2019
Caption: #photocontest2019
To Fill a Mockingbird
A juvenile Hood Mockingbird gets fed a tasty grub after following its parent around while begging for a snack. Hood Mockingbirds are endemic to Española Island in the Galápagos, and they are one of the four species of mockingbird found in the archipelago. When Darwin first ventured to the islands in 1835, he collected mockingbird specimens, and it is these species -- not the finches -- that sparked his theory of evolution.