Their plumage is not spectacular, like the male Baltimore orioles, scarlet tanagers, or indigo buntings. Instead, catbirds wear rather unremarkable slate gray and black-colored feathers. But, oh, can ...

As expected with the warming temperatures and greening in the end of May, we experienced a large movement of songbirds returning from their southern wintering sites. The flights began in April, ...

Let's face it. The gray catbird is a well-named species. No other bird species that occurs here is so uniformly gray across its body. There are only two exceptions: the top of its head and beneath its ...

Our days are at their longest now, and dawn comes early with its chorus of birdsong. If you’re up with the sun, you’ll get to enjoy the earliest singers. The gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) ...

I glanced out the store window the other day and noticed a catbird had plunked itself down in the middle of the birdbath that we have on the ground. The catbird proceeded to fluff its feathers and ...

We have a pair of catbirds nesting in the bushes next to our house. They sometimes sit on a nearby planter and feed each other bugs. More recently they have been flying right into the bushes with the ...

Say ‘scat’ to a cat and it runs away. Say ‘scat’ to a catbird and it starts to improvise. It’s a hepcat bird. These all-gray bird, black-beret-wearing birds can sing for minutes at a time, although it ...

There comes a time in life for every bird to spread its wings and leave the nest, but for gray catbirds, that might be the beginning of the end. Smithsonian scientists report fledgling catbirds in ...