May 03 2009
New Bird Sighting: Gray Catbird
This has been a good week for new birds at our feeders. This morning, I saw another new visitor, a Gray Catbird. A year-round resident, it’s the first time this bird has been seen in our yard.
The Gray Catbird is mostly slate gray with a small black cap on its head and a black undertail. It also has rufous (reddish) undertail coverts (base of the tail). No other eastern bird has this distinctive gray color.
It’s called a catbird because of its common call sounds like cat’s meeow.
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