Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Taxobox
name = Blue-gray Gnatcatcher


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Gnatcatcher
Sylviidae
genus = "Polioptila"
species = "P. caerulea"
binomial = "Polioptila caerulea"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1766)

The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, "Polioptila caerulea", is a very small songbird.

Adults are blue-grey on the upperparts with white underparts, with a long slender bill and a long black tail. They have a white eye ring.

Their breeding habitat is open deciduous woods and shrublands in southern Ontario, the eastern and southwestern United States, and Mexico. They build a cup nest similar in construction to a hummingbird nest on a horizontal tree branch. Both parents construct the nest and feed the young; they may raise two broods in a season.

These birds migrate to the southern United States, Mexico, northern Central America-(Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras), Cuba, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Cayman Islands.

They forage actively in trees or shrubs, mainly eating insects, insect eggs and spiders. They may hover over foliage-(gleaning), or fly to catch insects in flight-(hawking).

The tail is often held upright while defending territory or searching for food.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/blue_gray_gnatcatcher_info.htm Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Information and Photos] - South Dakota Birds and Birding
* [http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i7510id.html Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - "Polioptila caerula"] - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
* [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Blue-gray_Gnatcatcher.html Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Species Account] - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/14100400.htm Blue-grey Gnatcatcher stamps] (with RangeMap)-Turks and Caicos
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=6404 Blue-grey Gnatcatcher videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=blue-gray+gnatcatcher&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher photo gallery] VIREO


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