grey catbird

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grey catbird - North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing

Dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, catbird

oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus

Dumetella, genus Dumetella - catbirds

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This autumn has been dominated by trans-Atlantic migrants so far, including Grey Catbird, Baltimore Oriole and Scarlet Tanager - though the east hit back with a Brown Shrike in Norfolk over the weekend.

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-ATLANTIC gales brought several American vagrants to our shores including a grey catbird - only the second ever in Britain - to South Stack in Wales, and a bobolink to Prawle Point, Devon.

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In just six days, the super twitcher took six aircraft, made eight car journeys and spent almost pounds 1000 trying to catch sight of a Siberian blue robin and the grey catbird from America.