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White-eared catbird Gray catbird A gray catbird voicing cat-like sounds at Wildwood Preserve Metropark, Ohio, US. Several unrelated groups of songbirds are called catbirds because of their wailing calls, which resemble a cat's meowing. The genus name Ailuroedus likewise is from the Greek for 'cat-singer' or 'cat-voiced'. [1]
A gray catbird's song is easily distinguished from that of the northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) or brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) because the mockingbird repeats its phrases or "strophes" three to four times, the thrasher usually twice, but the catbird sings most phrases only once. The catbird's song is usually described as more raspy ...
The common name, catbird, refers to these species' "wailing cat-like calls". [2] The scientific name Ailuroedus is derived from the Greek 'ailouros', meaning cat, and 'eidos', referring to form (or perhaps from oaidos, singer).
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A catbird is any one of several unrelated songbirds with cat-like calls. It may also refer to: Aircraft. Lockheed Martin CATBird, Lockheed Martin test aircraft; Scaled Composites Catbird, a high-efficiency five-seat single-engine aircraft; Basketball. Louisville Catbirds, a basketball team; La Crosse Catbirds, a basketball team; Other. Catbird ...
In this video, we meet Peaches, an average barn cat who doesn’t mind blowing off work to chill with her BFF, a senior horse.Though Peaches was adopted and given a home in this family’s barn to ...
The California quail is the official state bird of California.. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1]
At least the cat's being direct with what he wants. There's no second guessing what the Siberian cat is angling for in the video his owner shared. Whenever Nimbus wants to get washed up, he lifts ...