I spied a gray catbird the other day at our suet feeder in Decatur, the first one I’ve seen in our yard this year. It probably has been nesting in the thick hedge in my yard all spring, but the ...

A colleague recently asked me about a bird he had heard near his yard that sounded like the meow of a cat. Gray catbird, I told him. If it sounds like a cat and looks like a bird, it's a catbird. I ...

The gray catbird is native to North America. Its range extends across most of the U.S. except for several far western states. Adults are about the size of a cowbird. The gray catbird is a migratory ...

Say ‘scat’ to a cat and it runs away. Say ‘scat’ to a catbird and it starts to improvise. It’s a hepcat bird. These all-gray bird, black-beret-wearing birds can sing for minutes at a time, although it ...

Ann: Hello, welcome to Noisy by Nature. My name is Ann. My favourite thing to do is use my ears to listen to different sounds that nature makes. I love the funny noise of a wompoo fruit dove in a ...

Our days are at their longest now, and dawn comes early with its chorus of birdsong. If you’re up with the sun, you’ll get to enjoy the earliest singers. The gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) ...

Reform Conservation Area is a seldom-visited spot for most area birders, but our weekly Columbia group has made it a regular stop. The conservation area encircles AmerenUE’s Callaway Nuclear Plant a ...

Margaret Atwood and superhero comics have turned out to be a purrfect match. The “Cat’s Eye” writer and five-time Booker Prize award winner has put her imaginative skills into creating the superhero, ...