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| − | [[Image:Blue-grey_Gnatcatcher.jpg|thumb| | + | [[Image:Blue-grey_Gnatcatcher.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by David Roach]] |
==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
| − | Description: 4 1/2 -5" (11-13 cm). Smaller than a sparrow. Tiny, slender, long-tailed bird, blue-gray above and white below, with white eye ring and broad white borders on black tail. Looks like a miniature mockingbird. | + | '''Description:''' 4 1/2 -5" (11-13 cm). Smaller than a sparrow. Tiny, slender, long-tailed bird, blue-gray above and white below, with white eye ring and broad white borders on black tail. Looks like a miniature mockingbird. |
| − | Habitat: Deciduous woodlands, streamside thickets, live oaks, pinyon-juniper, chaparral. | + | '''Habitat''': Deciduous woodlands, streamside thickets, live oaks, pinyon-juniper, chaparral. |
| − | Nesting: 4 or 5 brown-spotted pale blue eggs in a small, beautifully made cup of plant down and spider webs, decorated with flakes of lichen and fastened to a horizontal branch at almost any height above ground. | + | '''Nesting''': 4 or 5 brown-spotted pale blue eggs in a small, beautifully made cup of plant down and spider webs, decorated with flakes of lichen and fastened to a horizontal branch at almost any height above ground. |
| − | Range: Breeds from northern California, Colorado, southern Great Lakes region, southern Ontario, and New Hampshire southward. Winters north to southern California, Gulf Coast, and Carolinas. | + | '''Range''': Breeds from northern California, Colorado, southern Great Lakes region, southern Ontario, and New Hampshire southward. Winters north to southern California, Gulf Coast, and Carolinas. |
| − | Voice: Song is a thin, musical warble. Call note a distinctive, whining pzzzz, with a nasal quality. | + | '''Voice''': Song is a thin, musical warble. Call note a distinctive, whining pzzzz, with a nasal quality. |
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php?mcats=all&what=allfields&si=Polioptila+caerulea View more images of Blue-grey Gnatcatcher in the gallery] | *[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php?mcats=all&what=allfields&si=Polioptila+caerulea View more images of Blue-grey Gnatcatcher in the gallery] | ||
[[Category:Birds]] | [[Category:Birds]] | ||
Revision as of 19:12, 4 July 2007
- Polioptila caerulea
Identification
Description: 4 1/2 -5" (11-13 cm). Smaller than a sparrow. Tiny, slender, long-tailed bird, blue-gray above and white below, with white eye ring and broad white borders on black tail. Looks like a miniature mockingbird.
Habitat: Deciduous woodlands, streamside thickets, live oaks, pinyon-juniper, chaparral.
Nesting: 4 or 5 brown-spotted pale blue eggs in a small, beautifully made cup of plant down and spider webs, decorated with flakes of lichen and fastened to a horizontal branch at almost any height above ground.
Range: Breeds from northern California, Colorado, southern Great Lakes region, southern Ontario, and New Hampshire southward. Winters north to southern California, Gulf Coast, and Carolinas.
Voice: Song is a thin, musical warble. Call note a distinctive, whining pzzzz, with a nasal quality.
