How To Use Catbird In A Sentence
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Although first cousin to the melodious mockingbird, a catbird's song is seldom musical.
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If he had not been hurt, his team would be sitting in the catbird seat.
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Yesterday he called a catbird to within a few feet of him, by reproducing the notes as uttered and inflected by the female.
Michael O'Halloran
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But soon we drew out of the hot sunshine into the old orchard with its paltry display of deformed, green, runt apples, and its magnificent columns and canopies of poison ivy -- that most beautiful and least amiable of our indigenous plants; and then we got among scale-bark hickories, and there was one that had been fluted from top to bottom by a stroke of lightning; and here the little red squirrels were most unusually abundant and indignant; and there was a catbird that miauled exactly like a cat; and there was a spring among the roots of one great tree, and a broken teacup half buried in the sand at the bottom.
The Spread Eagle and Other Stories
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Things were fine, except for a catbird trapped inside the netting that covers the blueberry bushes.
"My weakness laid bare, as people stop and stare."
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Quite entertaining were some young Catbirds, meowing away in the tangled brush.
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I can hear the songs of migrating birds: phoebes, white-throated sparrows, towhees, catbirds, chipping sparrows.
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It is probably catbirds' habit of flicking dead leaves aside with their bill that exposes catbirds to questing ticks.
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Not only is the Cape flush with cardinals, towhees, mockingbirds, catbirds, goldfinches and woodpeckers, its birds of the shore entice many a visitor here.
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Coming from man who pretended nothing was wrong when the economy was collapsing and who consistently made a fool of himself and of us Americans whenever he went overseas to this "dangerous world"? catbird
Bush on Obama: 'This guy has no clue'
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Where there are briars or large, dense shrubs, catbirds are sure to be present.
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We saw lots of catbirds, blackbirds, mockingbirds, cardinals, crows, and grackles.
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Plumage characters suggest that the Abyssinian catbird is a babbler whose nearest relative may be the bush blackcap, Lioptilus nigricapillus, found in the thickets and forests of eastern South Africa.
Mystery bird: Ethiopian catbird, Parophasma galinieri
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One of these lineages includes the three species of Mimus, the second is formed by Melanotis caerulescens, and the third comprises the catbirds and Antillean thrashers and tremblers.
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Robins, hummingbirds, catbirds, thrushes and even a grouse or two, usually not attracted by seed feeders, are drawn to this water in our backyard garden.
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Instead of a symphony of song, we were treated to little more than the mewling of catbirds.
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The two-cluster test did not uncover significant rate variation between a cluster composed of catbirds and Antillean thrashers and tremblers, and a second cluster including Melanotis and Mimus species.
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I'll bet if we put meal worms out on a platform - as some folks do during the winter for bluebirds - robins, catbirds and others would gobble them up!
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Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
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We saw lots of catbirds, blackbirds, mockingbirds, cardinals, crows, and grackles.
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I'll bet if we put meal worms out on a platform - as some folks do during the winter for bluebirds - robins, catbirds and others would gobble them up!
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The preserve, wild with birdsong, was thick with robins, flickers, grackles, blackbirds, catbirds, and doves.
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The game was tight in the first half, but foul trouble put the Wildcats in the catbird seat.
IA Independents
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It is no "chewink" at all, but almost as close a reproduction of a cat's mew as is the catbird's well-known call.
Birds of the Rockies
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For the record, we also saw lots of catbirds, sparrows, and other New York birds of summer.
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Because catbirds inhabit such dense shrubby areas and are more likely heard than seen, I am often surprised by how many people tell me that their favorite bird is the catbird.
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The most famous mimic in this family is the northern mockingbird, followed closely by the gray catbird, which is so-named because of its ability to imitate the mewing of a cat.
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Abyssinian catbird, Parophasma galinieri (protonym, Parisoma Galinieri), also known as the Ethiopian catbird or as the juniper babbler, photographed at the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (Africa).
Mystery bird: Ethiopian catbird, Parophasma galinieri
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Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
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Of course, we spotted starlings, pigeons, doves, catbirds, grackles, blackbirds, cardinals, robins, blue jays, and mockingbirds, along with the expected three species of woodpecker.
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Robins, hummingbirds, catbirds, thrushes and even a grouse or two, usually not attracted by seed feeders, are drawn to this water in our backyard garden.
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We predicted, based on the egg mimicry hypothesis, that robins and catbirds would eject white cuckoo eggs and accept mimetic blue cuckoo eggs.
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This is a triumph of his, not a desperate, tragic failure," Anita Thompson said by phone, recounting that she was sitting in her husband's chair he called his catbird seat in the Rockies.
Don't romanticize Thompson's suicide.
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Not only is the Cape flush with cardinals, towhees, mockingbirds, catbirds, goldfinches and woodpeckers, its birds of the shore entice many a visitor here.
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A palm warbler is sighted in a patch of willows, which also teems with catbirds, warbling vireos, yellow warblers, and a blackpoll or two.
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The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective.
Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
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She and her colleagues collected a total of 30 individuals from among gray catbirds, Swainson's thrashes, and wood thrashes.
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Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
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Estimating the cost of accepting a cowbird egg was done by experimentally placing newly hatched cowbird chicks into catbird nests.
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That's possible, but I've never heard anyone in the South call a shrike a catbird.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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I don't understand how so many other people are able to feed their catbirds and orioles.
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I want to convince you that teachers could be -- should be -- in the catbird seat.
John Merrow: Lessons for Future Teachers
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She saw many colorful birds that she knew only from the books she studied: a cardinal and its mate, a cowbird, a catbird, two blue jays, and what she thought was a titmouse.
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Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
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I can hear the songs of migrating birds: phoebes, white-throated sparrows, towhees, catbirds, chipping sparrows.
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Although first cousin to the melodious mockingbird, a catbird's song is seldom musical.
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Cardinals and catbirds enjoy whatever the pear tree has to tempt them.
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Her Majesty, dressed in canary yellow, watched it all from her catbird seat in the mezzanine.
William and Kate
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For several years, design professionals sat in the catbird seat, able to parlay personnel shortages in a boom market into significant pay and benefit packages.
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Plumage characters suggest that the Abyssinian catbird is a babbler whose nearest relative may be the bush blackcap, Lioptilus nigricapillus, found in the thickets and forests of eastern South Africa.
Mystery bird: Ethiopian catbird, Parophasma galinieri
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Round the list out with the expected sparrows, cardinals, crows, starlings, doves, and catbirds, and you've got a nice hour of birding.
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A tree sparrow and a catbird came to check out the menu and were treated to half a biscuit that somebody hadn't been able to find room for.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Blue jays and crows rob smaller birds' nests, often those of robins and catbirds, of both eggs and young, while hawks may steal the same from the crows and jays!
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Perceiving that we are watching him the grosbeak ceases his ringing tones and drops into that dreamy, soft, melodious warble, which is characteristic of this songster as it is of the catbird.
Some Spring Days in Iowa
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In an analysis, Mason-Dixon pollster Brad Coker explains why he thinks Rubio is in "the catbird seat" to win:
Dueling Partisan Polls Confirm A Toss-Up In Illinois Senate Race
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These include northern logrunner or chowchilla Orthonyx spaldingii, little treecreeper Climacteris minor, Atherton scrubwren Sericornis keri, Australian fernwren Crateroscelis gutturalis, mountain thornbill Acanthiza katherina, bridled honeyeater Lichenostomus frenatus, Bower's shrike-thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha, tooth-billed catbird Ailuroedus dentirostris and golden bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana.
Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia
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The common birds included grackles, blackbirds, catbirds, and lots and lots of robins.
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Catbirds were not expected to eject other catbird eggs because both intra- and interclutch variations in the appearance of their immaculate eggs are small.
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This aged tree knows that the only invitation catbirds need to start building their nests is a sturdy bush where they can find shelter and a place to raise a family.
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The CATbird is a modified 737 designed to test, integrate, and validate the full F-35 mission systems suite in an airborne environment before the system flies in an F-35 aircraft.
