TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

Hatch-year Gray Catbird Gray Catbird- Dumetella carolinensis Gray Catbird- Dumetella carolinensis, Order PASSERIFORMES - Family MIMIDAE. While mist netting in Miami University Birding Observatory with Drs. Jill and Dave Russel, and a host of others, many Gray Catbirds were captured in the mist nets. NOTE: The mouth is hatch-year Gray Catbirds is light colored. As Catbirds age, the mouth darkens! Photo: September 25, 2005, Canon EOS-1D Mark II camera with 100 f/2.8 Macro lens For More Species Info: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Gray_Catbird_dtl.html "A secretive, but curious skulker of dense thickets, the Gray Catbird is heard more than it is seen. Its rambling song contains imitations of other bird songs, but the characteristic "mew" that gives it its name is not an imitation and sounds only vaguely cat-like."

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact hays@environment-education-press.org

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.