12 mars 1837 - Charles Darwin discovered the mockingbirds

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In Galapagos, Darwin and his assistant, Symes Covington, collected specimens of some birds smaller than mockingbirds. Together with the great British ornithologist John Gould, he found out that all of the birds he had collected on his travels and characteristics of finches those seed eating singing-birds with fat bills and colorful feathers.

Darwin notice that the beak of the birds ate insects that they had to pick from a tree trunk then the beak of the birds were long and thin. If the birds eat seed than their beaks were short and hard.

The great British ornithologist John Gould who realized that Darwin had found many species previously unrecorded. These smaller birds much later became known as Darwin’s finches.