Learn how to tell the difference between two gray colored mimic birds with big personalities: the gray catbird vs northern mockingbird.

Their plumage is not spectacular, like the male Baltimore orioles, scarlet tanagers, or indigo buntings. Instead, catbirds wear rather unremarkable slate gray and black-colored feathers. But, oh, can ...

I have first heard and then seen several individual gray catbirds in a mile stretch while walking wooded trails near Lake Waconia. They are feeding on ripe common buckthorn berries, wild grapes and ...