Catbird
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[edit] Birds
Several perching birds in unrelated families are called "catbirds" because of their calls:
- Catbirds proper in the bowerbird family (Ptilonorhynchidae):
- Ailuroedus
- White-eared Catbird (Ailuroedus buccoides)
- Spotted Catbird (Ailuroedus melanotis)
- Green Catbird (Ailuroedus crassirostris)
- Tooth-billed Catbird (Scenopooetes dentirostris)
- Ailuroedus
- New World catbirds in the mockingbird family (Mimidae)
- Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)
- Black Catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris)
- Abyssinian Catbird (Parophasma galinieri) in the Old World babbler family (Timaliidae)
[edit] Other uses
- For the Lockeed Martin test aircraft, see Lockheed CATBird
- For the record company, see Catbird Records
- For the idiom, see Catbird seat
- For basketball teams with this name, see
- For a reference to a horse of that name, see Golden Slipper