Cuban Gnatcatcher (Polioptila lembeyei)
The Cuban Gnatcatcher is endemic to Cuba where it is restricted to a few places on the coast. It is found in dry, scrubby vegetation.
Masked Gnatcatcher Polioptila dumicola
Described by: Vieillot (1817)
Alternate common name(s): Berlepsch's Gnatcatcher
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Gnatcatchers and Kinglets feed primarily on small insects. They will occasionally visit feeders for suet and peanut butter mixtures. Neither will use nest boxes.
name area season diet/native food plants
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
NCS ...
Gnatcatchers and Kinglets are part of a large family of
Warblers and Flycatchers.
They are small and thin billed birds.
As their name implies, insects are the main source of food.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Information and Photos - South Dakota Birds and Birding
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caerula - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Polioptila caerulea
The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) nests across much of the United States as well as many areas of Mexico. It winters from the southern U.S. southward to Central America.
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. Breeder. Common in spring, summer, and fall, and fairly common in winter in Gulf Coast region. In other regions, common in spring, summer, and fall, and rare in winter.
The little gnatcatchers inhabit coastal sage scrub year-round and are not a terribly difficult bird to identify, that is, assuming one gets a decent look or hears one calling.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Polioptila caerulea (Linnaeus)
Status Rare vagrant. It was first seen by Donald H. Giffin in August 1938 at Goldboro, Guysborough County. Second and third sightings were by Israel J.
Black-tailed Gnatcatchers are a species of the southwestern U.S., not found in South Dakota. Click on the thumbnail for high-resolution photos.
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 1
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 2 ...
California gnatcatcher Polioptila californica
Identification Tips: ...
Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details) ...
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 ...
GNATCATCHERS
GOATSUCKERS (Order: Caprimulgiformes, Family: Caprimulgidae)
Antillean Nighthawk
Chuck-will's-widow
Common Nighthawk
Common Poorwill: USGS
Lesser Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will ...
Gnatcatcher, Black-tailed Polioptila melanura Found: North America
Photographed by: 1) Elaine RWilson at the Visitor's Center, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California
2) Charlie Westerinen ...
The gnatcatchers are tiny, dainty birds with long, slender, pointed bills and longish tails. Their plumage is blue - gray to brown above and lighter below.
Species in this family:
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea)
Family Thraupidae ...
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
White-breasted Nuthatch
So this was an attempt to give you a list of some birds for bird identification by color. Hope it turns out to be helpful. You are most welcome to add to this list through the 'comments' section below.
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 ...
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-grey Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (regulas satrapa)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulas calendula) ...
Creamy-bellied gnatcatcher (Polioptila lactea)
Brachyotum (Brachyotum fictum)
Vervet (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)
Congo clawless otter (Aonyx congicus)
Greater bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus)
White-breasted thrasher (Ramphocinclus brachyurus) ...
Impacts of the October 1993 Laguna Canyon Fire on California gnatcatchers and cactus wrens. In: Keeley, Jon F.; Scott, Tom, eds. Brushfires in California: ecology and resource management: Proceedings; 1994 May 6-7; Irvine, CA.
In the same order as the kinglets are the gnatwrens of Central and South America and the gnatcatchers, both of the family Polioptilidae, found from the N United States to Argentina.
Efforts in these and other states to preserve western brush lands for other species, like the Greater Sage-Grouse, Gunnison Sage-Grouse, and the California Gnatcatcher, may benefit this sparrow.
larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, fairy bluebirds, shrikes, vanga shrikes, waxwings, palmcat, dippers, wrens, mockingbirds, accentors, thrushes, babblers, logrunners, parrotbills, rockfowl, gnatcatchers, ...
Another species that is very closely related are the Gnatwrens of Central and South America and the Gnatcatchers , found from the North United States to Argentina.
Gnatcatchers (Family Sylviidae)
Thrushes (Family Turdidae)
Mockingbirds, Thrashers and Allies (Family Mimidae)
Starlings (Family Sturnidae)
Accentors (Family Prunellidae)
Wagtails and Pipits (Family Motacillidae) ...
Family Polioptilidae (gnatcatchers)
Family Regulidae (kinglets)
Family Rhabdornithidae (Philippine creepers) ...
THE BLUE-GREY FLYCATCHER.
[Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.]
CULICIVORA COERULEA, Lath.
[Polioptila caerulea.] ...
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 ...
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.
 See also: Warbler, Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Sparrow, Kinglet
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