A gray catbird may make itself known from backyard brush before it ever comes into view, thanks to its emphatic, almost ...

The gray catbird is native to North America. Its range extends across most of the U.S. except for several far western states. Adults are about the size of a cowbird. The gray catbird is a migratory ...

The gray catbird might be the most aptly named bird species on the planet. It is certainly a bird. Looking at it, no one would mistake it for a cat. Hearing it is a little different. The catbird has a ...

I heard lots of meows in the neighborhood and forest preserves these past few weeks. They weren’t cats. They were catbirds. Gray catbirds to be exact. The robin-sized gray catbird sports a lovely ...

I spied a gray catbird the other day at our suet feeder in Decatur, the first one I’ve seen in our yard this year. It probably has been nesting in the thick hedge in my yard all spring, but the ...

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The bird songs that had filled the daylight hours during the spring are fading now, and only a few species still do any singing at all. The birds are still active, however, and anyone who walks ...

I have first heard and then seen several individual gray catbirds in a mile stretch while walking wooded trails near Lake Waconia. They are feeding on ripe common buckthorn berries, wild grapes and ...