Perhaps I am wrong, but I do not remember ever seeing a gray catbird around my home in the woods. I really have no shrub layer, no thicket, just high canopy. Anyway, this morning on my walk to the mailbox I heard the unmistakable phrase "meeeeowww." I paused to look, and at eye level to me, there the gray cat sat on a branch.
Like mockingbirds and thrashers, catbirds are open-ended learners, that learn to mimic other bird songs. Ultimately,their songs can last several minutes with many song phrases. But, wait for it, they will drop in "meeeeoww" ever so often.
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