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What is a catbird?

What is a catbird? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Either of two species of American mockingbird relatives, the grey catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, and the black catbird, Melanoptila glabrirostris.
  2. Any of four species of Australasian bowerbirds of the genera Ailuroedus and Scenopooetes.
  3. A babbler-like bird from eastern Africa, Parophasma galinieri.
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Though she does not mew and scream as did the catbird, she is just as anxious, you may be sure.
Equally real was the catbird on the hedge as we came down toward the station.
For several years, design professionals sat in the catbird seat, able to parlay personnel shortages in a boom market into significant pay and benefit packages.
In fact, everything about the insurance company suggests they know they're in the catbird seat.
Estimating the cost of accepting a cowbird egg was done by experimentally placing newly hatched cowbird chicks into catbird nests.
There is pride in the song of the tanager, and vanity in that of the catbird.

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