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Catbird

noun

Any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females. Synonym: bowerbird.

North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing. Synonyms: Dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, grey catbird.

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"Catbird" Quotes from Famous Books

... of religion are like the catbird. When it is away from its nest, it is one of the sweetest of the northern warblers, and so it is often called the northern mocking-bird; but when it is close to its nest, you will hear only a harsh, discordant note. It has no sweetness in its voice while at its nest. Some people reserve all ...

— Heart Talks • Charles Wesley Naylor

... was quick to know and love the birds of hedge and field and woods. The martins that built in his gourds on the tall pole had opened his eyes. The red and bluebirds, the thrush, the wren, the robin, the catbird, and song sparrows were ...

— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon

... seldom heard till toward the last of April. The ground-birds are all tree-singers or air-singers; they must have an elevated stage to speak from. Our long-tailed thrush, or thrasher, like its congeners the catbird and the mockingbird, delights in a high branch of some solitary tree, whence it will pour out its rich and intricate warble for an hour together. This bird is the great American chipper. There is no other bird that I know of that can chip with such emphasis and military decision ...

— Birds and Poets • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Catbird" : Chlamydera nuchalis, oscine bird, satin bowerbird, oscine, genus Dumetella, Ptilonorhynchidae, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, great bowerbird, family Ptilonorhynchidae, Dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, satin bird, Dumetella