Noun: catbird 'kat,burd
- North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing
"The catbird's distinctive mewing call echoed from the shrubs";
- grey catbird [Brit, Cdn], gray catbird [US], Dumetella carolinensis
- Any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females
"The satin catbird decorated its bower with blue objects";
- bowerbird
Derived forms: catbirds
Type of: oscine, oscine bird
Part of: Dumetella, family Ptilonorhynchidae, genus Dumetella, Ptilonorhynchidae
Encyclopedia: Catbird