WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Dumetella carolinensis | Gray Catbird 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The gray catbird breeds from southern British Columbia, southern
Ontario, and Nova Scotia south to central New Mexico and northern
Florida; west to northern and south-central Washington, south-central
and eastern Oregon, north-central Utah, and central and northeastern
Arizona.  Its winter range extends from north-central and eastern Texas,
the central portions of the Gulf States, and Atlantic coastal lowlands
from Long Island south to the Gulf-Caribbean slope of Central America [7].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES16 Oak-gum-cypress
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES29 Sagebrush


STATES : 


    
AL
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
FL
    
GA
    
ID
    
IL


	
IN
    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD
    
MA
    
MI
    
MN


	
MS
    
MO
    
MT
    
NE
    
NH
    
NJ
   
NM
    
NY
    
NC
    
ND


 	
OH
    
OK
    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SC
    
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    
VT


    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY






    
BC
    
NS
    
SK
 



BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K032  Transition between K031 and K037
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K105  Mangrove
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin
   K115  Sand pine scrub
   K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    45  Pitch pine
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    61  River birch - sycamore
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    63  Cottonwood
    65  Pin oak - sweetgum
    69  Sand pine
    70  Longleaf pine
    73  Southern redcedar
    75  Shortleaf pine
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    84  Slash pine
    87  Sweetgum - yellow-poplar
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    89  Live oak
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    94  Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
    95  Black willow
    96  Overcup oak - water hickory
    97  Atlantic white-cedar
    98  Pond pine
   105  Tropical hardwoods
   108  Red maple
   109  Hawthorn
   105  Tropical hardwoods
   106  Mangrove
   111  South Florida slash pine
   215  Western white pine
   218  Lodgepole pine
   238  Western juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
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PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
The gray catbird occurs in a wide variety of plant communities.
Physiognomy rather than cover type appears to be the dominant factor in
habitat preference; forest edge is preferred to hedgerows in the open
[18].  Riparian areas are heavily favored [6].  In the Southeast, the
heaviest breeding densities occur in sapling-poletimber stages of elm
(Ulmus spp.)-ash (Fraxinus spp.)-cottonwood (Populus spp.) types, and
the highest winter densities occur in shrub-seedling stages of maritime
live oak (Quercus virginiana) [11].  Breininger [4] reported the
presence of wintering gray catbirds in Florida swale marshes.  In New
England, the gray catbird is rare at high elevations [6].  In western
North Dakota, gray catbirds forage and nest in cottonwood types [12].
In Saskatchewan, gray catbirds were observed in aspen (Populus spp.)
with shrub understory [13].  In Oregon, primary gray catbird foraging
use occurs in tall sagebrush (Artemisia spp.)/bunchgrass, squaw apple
(Peraphyllum ramosissimum)/bunchgrass, curlleaf mountain-mahogany
(Cercocarpus ledifolius var. ledifolius)/bunchgrass, curlleaf
mountain-mahogany/pinegrass (Calamagrostis rubescens) and other brush
communities.  Primary reproductive use occurs in quaking aspen (Populus
tremuloides)/grass, quaking aspen/mountain big sagebrush (Artemisia
tridentata ssp. vaseyana)/bunchgrass, and riparian areas [16].

Plant species commonly used by gray catbirds include multiflora rose
(Rosa multiflora), barberries (Berberis spp.), lilacs (Syringa spp.),
mockorange (Philadelphus spp.), osage-orange (Maclura pomifera), and
various conifers [7,25].


REFERENCES : 
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