Netherlands Antilles banknotes 250 Guilder note 1986
Obverse: Caribbean mockingbird at center.
Reverse: Coat of Arms of the Central Bank of the Netherlands Antilles - Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen (New bank name - Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten)
Printer: Joh Enschede en Zonen imp, Netherlands.
Netherlands Antilles banknotes - Netherlands Antilles paper money
1986-1998 Bird series
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Caribbean mockingbird - Tropical mockingbird
The tropical mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) is a resident breeding bird from southern Mexico south to northern Brazil, and in the Lesser Antilles and other Caribbean islands. The birds in Panama and Trinidad may have been introduced. The northern mockingbird (M. polyglottos) is its closest living relative, but the critically endangered Socorro mockingbird (M. graysoni) is also much closer to these two than previously believed.