The tropical mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) is a resident breeding bird from southern Mexico to northern and eastern South America and in the Lesser Antilles and other Caribbean islands.

[4] The tropical mockingbird has these ten subspecies:[2] M. g. antelius and M. g. magnirostris have been suggested as separate species but morphological and vocal evidence for the potential splits are weak.

[6] The subspecies of the tropical mockingbird are distributed thus:[2][6] The population of M. g. tolimensis in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama are descendants of escaped cage birds imported from Colombia.

[6] The tropical mockingbird forages on the ground or low in vegetation; it also captures flying insects such as swarming termites on the wing.

Both sexes build the nest using coarse twigs lined with softer material and place it low in a shrub or tree.

The tropical mockingbird's song is "a varied and long-continued sequence of diverse mellow to harsh notes, trills, with considerable repetition of phrases".

Its range has expanded in some areas, such as northward in the Lesser Antilles, but has contracted in southeastern Brazil due to habitat loss and illegal trapping.