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Gray Catbird
Dumetella carolinensis
Audubon Illustration
John James Audubon, Birds of America (1827-1838). Public domain.
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About the Gray Catbird
The gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), also spelled grey catbird, is a medium-sized North American and Central American perching bird of the mimid family. It is the only member of the "catbird" genus Dumetella. Like the black catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris), it is among the basal lineages of the Mimidae, probably a closer relative of the Caribbean thrasher and trembler assemblage than of the mockingbirds and Toxostoma thrashers. In some areas it is known as the slate-colored mockingbird.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Dumetella carolinensis
- Family
- Mockingbirds and Thrashers
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the mockingbirds and thrashers family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Bahama Mockingbird Mimus gundlachii
- Bendire's Thrasher Toxostoma bendirei
- Black Catbird Melanoptila glabrirostris
- Blue Mockingbird Melanotis caerulescens
- Blue-and-white Mockingbird Melanotis hypoleucus
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- California Thrasher Toxostoma redivivum
- Cozumel Thrasher Toxostoma guttatum
- Crissal Thrasher Toxostoma crissale
- Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
- Gray Thrasher Toxostoma cinereum
- LeConte's Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei
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