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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have thick shrubs in your yard or live near the edge of a wooded area, that slender gray bird that is eating the grape jelly that you meant for orioles is the beautiful and sleek Gray Catbird.

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a rare summer that goes by without me writing a column about catbirds. Aside from robins they are perhaps the dominant songbird of a New England summer. At my new home, Chipping Sparrows may give ...