Gray catbird

Gray catbird
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – present
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Adult in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Mimidae
Genus: Dumetella
C.T. Wood, 1837
Species:
D. carolinensis
Binomial name
Dumetella carolinensis
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Approximate distribution map
  Breeding
  Migration
  Year-round
  Non-breeding
Synonyms

Genus:
Galeoscoptes Cabanis, 1850

  • Dumetella bermudianus Bangs & Bradlee, 1901
  • Dumetella carolinensis bermudianus Bangs & Bradlee, 1901
  • Dumetella carolinensis carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)
  • Dumetella felivox Vieillot, 1807
  • Galeoscoptes carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)
  • Muscicapa carolinensis Linnaeus, 1766
  • Turdus felivox Vieillot, 1807
A Gray catbird stands in the grass

The gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), also spelled grey catbird, is a medium-sized North American and Central American perching bird of the mimid family. It is the only member of the "catbird" genus Dumetella. Like the black catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris), it is among the basal lineages of the Mimidae, probably a closer relative of the Caribbean thrasher and trembler assemblage than of the mockingbirds and Toxostoma thrashers.[2][3] In some areas it is known as the slate-colored mockingbird.[4]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Dumetella carolinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22711013A94272855. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22711013A94272855.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Hunt, Jeffrey S.; Bermingham, Eldredge; Ricklefs, Robert E. (2001). "Molecular systematics and biogeography of Antillean thrashers, tremblers, and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae)" (PDF). Auk. 118 (1): 35–55. doi:10.1642/0004-8038(2001)118[0035:MSABOA]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 51797284. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
  3. ^ Barber, Brian R.; Martínez-Gómez, Juan E.; Peterson, A. Townsend (2004). "Systematic position of the Socorro mockingbird Mimodes graysoni" (PDF). J. Avian Biol. 35 (3): 195–198. doi:10.1111/j.0908-8857.2004.03233.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-07.
  4. ^ Gray Catbird, BirdNature.com