catbird

IPA: kˈætbɝd

Either of two species of American mockingbird relatives, the grey catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, and the black catbird, Melanoptila glabrirostris.
Any of four species of Australasian bowerbirds of the genera Ailuroedus and Scenopoeetes.
A babbler-like bird from eastern Africa, Parophasma galinieri.

Examples of "catbird" in Sentences

I want to convince you that teachers could be -- should be -- in the catbird seat.
The game was tight in the first half, but foul trouble put the Wildcats in the catbird seat.
Her Majesty, dressed in canary yellow, watched it all from her catbird seat in the mezzanine.
Things were fine, except for a catbird trapped inside the netting that covers the blueberry bushes.
In an analysis, Mason-Dixon pollster Brad Coker explains why he thinks Rubio is in "the catbird seat" to win:
Yesterday he called a catbird to within a few feet of him, by reproducing the notes as uttered and inflected by the female. "
"This is a triumph of his, not a desperate, tragic failure," Anita Thompson said by phone, recounting that she was sitting in her husband's chair he called his catbird seat in the Rockies.
Coming from man who pretended nothing was wrong when the economy was collapsing and who consistently made a fool of himself and of us Americans whenever he went overseas to this "dangerous world"? catbird
The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective.