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Gray Catbird
[Dumetella carolinensis]
[Length 8.5 in. Wingspan 11 in.]
Gray Catbirds are common breeding birds of thickets and forest edges throughout eastern, central, and northwestern America.
They get their name from their variety of mewing, catlike calls.
This one was photographed at Cape May, New Jersey, USA.
Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Kodachrome 200 film.
(Date: September 1981)
(use image name "catb1" for inquiries)
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