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Dumetella carolinensis · Family Mimidae

Dumetella carolinensis

Family Mimidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Mimidae
GBIF occurrence records
9,421,781
Countries and territories with records
34
Gray catbird
AMMuench · Graycatbird-WashParkCedarFallsIowa-20220506.jpg · CC BY 4.0 · AMMuench · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Dumetella_carolinensis_-_Grey_Catbird_XC79975.mp3 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 9,421,781 occurrence records from 34 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (88.4%) and Canada (9.4%); together they account for 97.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.75% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Dumetella carolinensis combines the genus name Dumetella with the species epithet carolinensis. It is the only species of the genus Dumetella in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Mimidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Mimus polyglottos. Its record count is 11.3 times the family average (830,852). The family Mimidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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