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 feathers on the head. Male and female ...

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 ...

Mainers love their birds and so this summer we are telling you about a different bird each week with the help of Maine Audubon. Also read: 'Wee-eep!': Hear this flycatcher before you see it, high in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Catbirds have a slew of insects to munch on in summer. They indulge in ants, caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers and moths. And you might spot gray catbirds feasting on the grape jelly you put out for ...