Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
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Blue-gray gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
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Song: Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Song
Migration: Summers throughout much of the United States except for the Pacific Northwest and the northern tier of states. Winters in the extreme southern United States and southward.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Behaviour
No observations regarding Blue-gray Gnatcatcher behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Blue-gray Gnatcatchers ...
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
(Polioptila caerulea)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Likely but not confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed ...
Blue-gray Gnatcatchers have white outer tail feathers, which, when the tail is not fanned out, rest on the bottom of the tail. You can see how prominent the white is in the tail in the picture at right.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Adult
Tiny: less than half the size of a mockingbird
Forages in trees like a chickadee, unlike mockingbird
Grayish blue above, pale grayish below
White eyering
© Byard Miller, Hinsdale, New Hampshire, May 2008 ...
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
White-breasted Nuthatch
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Summer Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes
Hudsonian Godwit
Summer Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher occurs throughout most of the eastern and southwestern United States during the breeding season. It occurs in the coastal Southeast all year. Wintering birds are seen from the southern United States south to Central America.
THE BLUE-GREY FLYCATCHER.
[Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.]
CULICIVORA COERULEA, Lath.
[Polioptila caerulea.] ...
Most species of gnatcatchers live in the tropics, but one, the
blue-gray gnatcatcher, is widely distributed in wooded areas from
southern Mexico to southernmost Canada.
Page 5: Rough-legged Hawk, Mountain Bluebird (March 2007), Northern Shrike (Feb 2007), Saw-Whet Owl (March 2007), Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher(Feb 2007), American Redstart, Clay-colored Sparrow, Sage Sparrow (April 2007).
Photos by Andrew Mascarenhas ...
name area season diet/native food plants
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
NCS
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The gnatcatchers occur in North and South America . Most species of this mainly tropical and subtropical group are resident, but the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher of the USA and southern Canada migrates south in winter.
I went back the next day and several days after with no success. Pike's Bridge Road produced the usual Blue-winged Warblers and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. The number of Bobolinks in the meadow seemed to be reduced from past years.
The blue-gray gnatcatcher of the United States and Mexico is typical of the group. Kinglets are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Sylviidae.
 See also: Gnatcatcher, Warbler, Flycatcher, Kinglet, Sparrow
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