Thanks Andrew, Patrick and Doug -
Patrick, a catbird is an aberrant bowerbird (aberrant in that it builds no bower), a little larger and much stockier than a domestic pigeon, emerald green with red eyes and scattered white markings, inhabiting eastern Australian rainforests. Its song resembles a baby crying or cat being run over, and its more usual but lesser known call sounds like a tiny silver hammer. You can see and hear one at:
http://birdsinbackyards.net/species/Ailuroedus-crassirostris
Brian
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Brian enjoyed this but I do not know what a catbird is??
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Subject: Catbird Snap
CATBIRD
Catbird hunting mandarins
Escapes from the tree
And tinks like a tiny hammer
As he returns,
Praising the steep blue sky
Where silent jets
Drag tails of flaming gossamer.
Brian
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