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	Gray Catbird
		Gray Catbirds are denizens of early successional shrub and sapling habitats that are found near stream borders and along forest edges.
		Gray Catbird populations are highest in habitats with the densest shrubbery.
		Catbird calls include the catlike meow call that gives them their name; a soft quirrt or kwut that functions as a low-intensity alarm call; or a louder, grating ratchet call given when suddenly alarmed, especially near the nest.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /gray_catbird_info.htm (589 words)

	gcat_br (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gray Catbird breeds from the southern mainland of British Columbia, the southern half of the Canadian Prairie provinces, southern Ontario, southwestern Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia south through Washington, eastern Oregon, Utah, and eastern Texas, east to the Atlantic coast.
		The Gray Catbird is sparsely but widely distributed across the interior of southern British Columbia north to Quesnel and Golden, and from the southern Rocky Mountains west to Riske Creek in the Cariboo and Chilcotin areas and casually in the Fraser Lowland on the south coast.
		The Gray Catbird is a distinctive member of the summer avifauna in the warm southern valleys of the interior of British Columbia.
	www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca /nh_papers/gracebell/english/gcat_br.html (1771 words)

	Gray Catbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gray Catbird is a slim all gray-slate bird with a fl cap and chestnut undertail.
		The Gray Catbird is a migratory bird with their migration performed mostly during night, when they move slowly from bush to bush.
		Like all other thrushes, the Gray Catbird is very fond of bathing and rolls itself in the dust or sand of the roadsides or fields.
	www.birdnature.com /catbird.html (361 words)

	Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency: Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbird and Brown Thrasher
		Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) - The gray catbird is eight to nine inches long, smaller and more slender than a robin, an overall dark gray with a fl cap and chestnut around the vent.
		Gray catbirds are abundant and statewide in Pennsylvania, inhabiting hedgerows, woods undergrowth, regenerating cut-over land, shrubby areas near water, woods edges and suburban plantings.
		Brown-headed cowbirds often lay their eggs in catbird nests, but catbirds almost always recognize the parasitic eggs (which are pale and dotted with brown) and pitch them out of the nest.
	www.pgc.state.pa.us /pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=458&q=150398 (1634 words)

	Gray Catbird
		The Gray Catbird, a member of the mockingbird family, is a common breeding species over most of the US except the far west and southwest.
		Gray Catbirds build a bulky cup nest of sticks, vines, leaves and grasses in a low tree or shrub.
		Catbirds are able to recognize cowbird eggs and remove them from their nest, so cowbird parasitism does not have the impact on catbird populations that it has on other songbirds.
	www.wbu.com /chipperwoods/photos/grcatbird.htm (494 words)

	Birds, Familiar: Gray Catbird, Life Histories of North American Birds, A.C. Bent
		The catbird is scrupulous in the sanitation of the nest.
		In Florida, where the catbird is a regular though not abundant winter resident, various observers have reported the birds subsisting on holly, poke, and smilax berries, balsam apples, and Barbados cherries, and stomachs of catbirds collected at Micco, Fla., were found to contain the seeds of the saw palmetto.
		Catbirds that build their nests in the yards and gardens near the homes of man are subject to attacks by the domestic cat.
	home.bluemarble.net /~pqn/ch91-100/gcatbird.html (13392 words)

	Gray Catbird Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gray Catbirds breed from southern Canada to central New Mexico and the Gulf states and in Bermuda.
		The greatest waves of migratory Gray Catbirds occur in mid-April to mid-May and again in the fall from mid-September to late October.
		Gray Catbirds are often double-brooded and usually eject Brown-headed Cowbird eggs from their nests (Terres 1980).
	wld.fwc.state.fl.us /bba/GRCA.htm (270 words)

	Vineyard Gazette - Bird News
		The catbird is a bird of dense thickets and roadside bushes and vines.
		Sitting in the catbird seat, they have the advantage as they are in a perfect position not only to see a potential predator first, but also to announce its arrival to the neighborhood.
		Gray catbirds were first reported on the Vineyard in the 1890s.
	www.mvgazette.com /features/bird_news?document=20040625_bird_news (650 words)

	Woodstock Journal - Miriam Sanders' Notebook
		The "gray catbird," Dumetella carolinensis, is a member of the mockingbird family, which also includes the thrashers.
		The gray catbird is a sociable creature, often found inhabiting shrubs, vines and hedges near houses.
		Catbirds are primarily insectivorous, and their presence is a great benefit to the home gardener.
	www.woodstockjournal.com /miriam7-10.html (605 words)

	* Catbird - (Bird): Definition
		Catbirds build quite large and substantial nests of small twigs, rootlets and shreds of bark; the bowl-shaped interior is lined with slender fl rootlets and on these the four greenish-blue eggs are laid...
		Gray Catbirds are often found in dense thickets.
		Its behavior is more like a thrasher or a catbird, as it prefers to hide in dense cover, giving off a sometimes bizarre series of calls...
	en.mimi.hu /bird/catbird.html (370 words)

	All About Birds
		One male Gray Catbird was observed to be mated to two females in different territories.
		If a cowbird quickly replaces the first catbird egg in a nest, the catbird may recognize the cowbird egg as its own and throw out its own eggs as they are laid.
		Northern Mockingbird is paler gray with white in wings and tail.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Gray_Catbird_dtl.html (412 words)

	birds template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Catbird is a North American songbird related to mockingbirds and thrashers.
		The gray catbird breeds in the eastern, central, and southern parts of the United States and in southern Canada.
		The gray catbird hides its loosely made nest of twigs and rootlets in tangled thickets and thick brush.
	www.worldbook.com /features/birds/html/types_song_mock_memb.html (398 words)

	Wilson Bulletin: Nest reuse by a Gray Catbird. (Short Communications).@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilson Bulletin; 9/1/2001; VanDruff, Larry W. We report a Gray Catbird (Dumetela carolinensis) laying eggs in a nest built and used by conspecifics the preceding year.
		A Gray Catbird built a nest in the same patch of shrubs later in the second year and successfully fledged young.
		Although passerines reusing nests have been documented previously, this is the first report for a Gray Catbird.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:86049576&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (183 words)

	BISON Species Account 040150 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gray catbirds are rare migrants at the White Sands National Monument, in Dona Ana and Otero counties 68.
		The gray catbird was listed as an occasional transient (spring and fall) in the Sandia and Manzanita Mountains, within the Cibola National Forest (Bernalillo County) (Schwarz, 1995) 81.
		The response of Gray catbirds (Dumetella carolinensis), breeding in riparian habitats of the western United States, is noted as "unresponsive,"...
	www.fw.vt.edu /fishex/nmex_main/species/040150.htm (2095 words)

	v2issue6MysteryBird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gray Catbird is of the same family as mockingbirds, and has a similar profile: 8-9" long and slender.
		Catbirds will raise two broods each summer and have been known to adopt lost birds into their families.
		Catbirds are widely found throughout North America, primarily from the prairie states east to the Atlantic.
	www.wildbirdstore.com /v2issue6MysteryBird.asp (300 words)

	Baby Catbird Survival - National Zoo\| FONZ
		To gain a greater understanding of such factors an intense study was launched on the breeding biology of gray catbirds inhabiting the backyards of several Neighborhood Nestwatch participants.
		Baby catbird outfitted with a radio transmitter so that its movements after leaving the nest can be followed.
		Catbirds are a native, long-distance migratory species that is abundant in the Washington, DC region.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Research/Gray_Catbird (494 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- November 1995, week 2 (#183)
		Moreover, when Larry tells me that he saw a catbird, I know that he really means Gray Catbird; and that when I pass the record on to Linnaeus, he knows that I really mean _D.
		By Gray Catbird, I really do mean: "grey bird with fl cap and chestnut crissum; one of two or more similar species".
		I think that at least several readers of this new field guide will be smart enough to conclude that Gray Catbird implies the existence of multiple catbird species, whereas Razorbill implies the existence of only one kind of razorbill.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9511b&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=14146 (489 words)

	Association of Field Ornithologists
		Predation was the major cause of post-fledging mortality, accounting for 91.7% of the known deaths in Yellow-breasted Chats, and 75.0% of known deaths in Gray Catbirds.
		Yellow-breasted Chat survival was affected by age of female parent and fledging date, while Gray Catbird survival was affected by brood size and rank within the brood; this suggests that the mechanisms that limit post-fledging survival were different for the 2 species.
		Whether populations were classified as sources or sinks depended on whether I took post-fledging survival into account or used a general estimate of first-year survival, highlighting the importance of accurate post-fledging survival estimates in assigning source/sink status to a population.
	www.afonet.org /english/berg/progress.html (554 words)

	Catbird, Birds, Catbird, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The gray catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, family Mimidae, is common over most of North America from central Canada south, (except on the U.S. West Coast), wintering south to Central America.
		Slightly smaller (23 cm/9 in) than the American robin, it is slim and dark gray, with a fl cap and chestnut red undertail coverts.
		The fl catbird, Melanoptila glabrirostris, of Central America is similar in size and is glossy blue fl overall.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/birdsindex.asp?counter=20 (128 words)

	Main Category -Specific Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gray Catbird is the most common of all 107 species we capture.
		Of six catbirds recaptured during the 2002 breeding season one was banded at Riveredge in 1999, two in 2000, and three in 2001.
		Just as Riveredge is providing a quality-nesting habitat, catbirds must encounter habitat that provides for their needs at all of their many migratory stopover sites and at their wintering sites (we like to think they winter at Tirimbina Rainforest Center in Costa Rica).
	www.riveredgenc.org /research/maps.shtm (413 words)

	* Gray Catbird - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Catbirds first appear in spring during late April or early May (average 1 May, earliest 16 April)...
		Try offering apples in a similar manner; they may attract American robins, gray catbirds, and blue jays...
		Male Gray Catbirds, disputing the boundary between their territories, will fluff their feathers, spread and often lower their tails, and as a last resort, raise their wings...
	www.bestknows.com /bird/gray_catbird.html (179 words)

	Gray Catbird - South Dakota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ID Keys: All gray body, dark gray cap, fl tail and bill.
		The Gray Catbird is named for the occasional cat-like mewing that the bird makes.
		Gray Catbirds have a remarkably varied vocabulary, rarely repeating the same phrase as it sings a mix of melodic and grating noises.
	huskertsd.tripod.com /species/gray_catbird.htm (182 words)

	How the Catbird came to be renamed the Gray Catbird.
		The Catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, a fantastic mimic and one of the favorites of backyard birdwatchers in eastern and central North America, has been recently renamed by the American Ornithological Union as the Gray Catbird.
		The only other Catbird native to the western hemisphere is the Black Catbird, Melanoptila glabrirostri, a resident of coastal part of the Yucatan peninsula in southeastern Mexico.
		These three Catbirds are not directly related to the two species of Catbirds in our hemisphere: our Catbirds are members of the Thrush family.
	www.bottlebrushpress.com /catbird.html (654 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Gray Catbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When agitated he mews like a kitten; the similarity is so striking that one is sometimes at a loss as to whether the sound comes from cat or bird.
		Catbirds usually raise two broods, with a new nest, usually near the first one, built for the second family.
		A Gray Catbird was banded as a juvenile in Pennsylvania on 18 August 1962 and found dead in Shelburne County on 7 October of the same year (H.F. Lewis).
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0293.htm (587 words)

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		An investigation into the captive status of Gray Catbird revealed that it was unknown as a cagebird outside North America.
		This record constitutes the sixth confirmed occurrence of the Gray Catbird in the Western Palearctic.
		There is a single record of Gray Catbird from Ireland on Cape Clear, Co Cork, on 4 November 1986, plus one from Jersey, Channel Islands, during October-December 1975.
	www.birdguides.com /birdnews/article.asp?a=158 (1310 words)

	Thrashes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gray Catbird is a dull-grey colour with fl on the top of its head and tail and rusty-coloured under-tail coverts.
		The catbird mainly forages on the ground, but collects berries in shrubs and trees.
		The catbird prefers to live in thick shrubs, often near the edge of woods, along streams and in hedges around gardens.
	www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca /programs/songbirds/thrash-graycatbird.html (146 words)

	Gray Catbird at Moss Beach, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This morning I visited Moss Beach in search of a Gray Catbird which had been present in the area since 12 December 2002.
		After about 15 minutes the catbird flew from the back of the hedge toward a wood pile across the vacant lot on the northwest corner of Virginia and Beach.
		The rest of the bird was solid gray with a charcoal cast except for the cap which was contrasting fl, the eye which was contrasting fl standing out prominently on the gray face, and the undertail coverts which were dark russet.
	fog.ccsf.edu /~jmorlan/grca.htm (454 words)

	Gray catbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I did not see this personally, but was reported from an avid feeder watcher in West Chester (Cincinnati) that they have had a Gray Catbird at the feeder for the last 4 days.
		They have never had a catbird at the feeder before.
		Are catbirds known to be in this area in the winter?
	lists.envirolink.org /pipermail/ohio-birds/2005-January/005533.html (115 words)

	Gray Catbird -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gray Catbird -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Gray Catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, is a medium-sized (A bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists) perching bird of the (Click link for more info and facts about Mimid) Mimid family, the only member of genus Dumetella.
		They were named for their cat-like call, but they also mimic the songs of other birds.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/gray_catbird.htm (319 words)

	eNature.com Nature Guides
		Formerly known simply as the "Catbird," this bird has had its name changed officially to Gray Catbird because there is an all-fl species, the Black Catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris), in southern Mexico.
		It often announces its presence by a harsh, cat-like whine issuing from a dense tangle of vegetation; the bird responds to an imitation of this call, popping suddenly into view for a better look.
		A slender, long-tailed, dark gray bird with fl cap and rusty undertail coverts.
	www.enature.com /flashcard/show_flash_card.asp?recordNumber=BD0135 (144 words)

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