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 ...

A colleague recently asked me about a bird he had heard near his yard that sounded like the meow of a cat. Gray catbird, I told him. If it sounds like a cat and looks like a bird, it's a catbird. I ...

The early morning boat ride up the Milk River was long and cool for a late summer day. When we came to our destination, I heard a familiar bird call from the dense shrubbery on the riverbanks. It wasn ...

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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 ...

Several years ago, I was awakened nearly every day of late spring by a recurring — and very loud — bird sound. I say “sound,” rather than “song,” because this particular noise was not so melodious as ...

Related to the Mockingbird, the Gray Catbird can make a variety of sounds through mimicry. These birds like to hide out in thickets near water, making the Long Island Sound region a favorite spot ...