Gray Catbird
Dumetella carolinensis
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Mockingbirds and Thrashers
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Call and song
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About the Gray Catbird
Medium-sized songbird, smaller than a robin, with a smooth gray body, black cap, and rusty-red undertail. Sometimes mimics other species in complex, jumbled song. Prefers dense shrubs and small trees in forest edges, streamside thickets, and old fields. Occasionally feeds on suet.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 32 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Germany
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- High Seas
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Spain
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
