Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada (B), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, St Pierre and Miquelon (B) (P), Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B).
Vagrant to Anguilla, Bermuda, Germany, Ireland, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands (U.S.).
Breeds southern Canada (British Columbia east to Nova Scotia) and central, eastern and south-eastern USA (eastern Washington and eastern Oregon south-east to Utah and Texas, east to Atlantic coast, also on Bermuda. Non-breeding extreme southern and south-eastern USA, northern Caribbean islands, and Atlantic coastal areas of Central America south to Panama and Colombia.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 10,000,000 (2010).
Grey Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) [XC477782]
by Sunny from Widgeon Creek, British Columbia, United States (call, song)
Grey Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) [XC252723]
by Ted Floyd from Powerscourt, Le Haut-Saint-Laurent, Qu\u00e9bec, United States (?)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Closely related to Black Catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris), and these two species are sometimes considered closely enough related to be lumped in the same genus. In such an arrangement, present genus has priority. In past, was commonly isolated in genus Galeoscoptes, but Dumetella subsequently shown to be the older name.
Proposed subspecies ruficrissa (western parts of range), meridiana (central and south) and bermudiana (Bermuda) appear to be too weakly defined to be reliably distinguishable.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet