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 ...

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 ...

Legendary 1940s and 1950s baseball announcer Red Barber said that he first heard the phrase sitting in the catbird seat during a poker game in Cincinnati during the Great Depression. An opposing ...

What Does a Gray Catbird Look Like? The gray catbird is a common summer songbird in the eastern United States. A pretty solid bird size-wise, a catbird is slate gray with a rust red rump and black ...

More people should know the gray catbird. They are omnipresent, with 20-30 million distributed across a vast breeding range from Florida up the coast to Quebec, across the Midwest to Texas and ...

What happens when a migratory bird’s path lands it right in an urban area like Washington, D.C.? The city is known for its extensive park system, but can these urban parks support wild birds through ...

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