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Blue-gray gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea)
(credit: Karl H. Maslowski)
Any of about 11 species of small songbirds (genus Polioptila) often treated as a subfamily of the Old World warbler family Sylviidae. The blue-gray gnatcatcher, 4.5 in. (11 cm) long, with its long white-edged tail, looks like a tiny mockingbird. It breeds locally from eastern Canada and California to the Bahamas and Guatemala and winters from the southern U.S. southward. The black-tailed gnatcatcher lives in the deserts of the southwestern U.S.; the other species are found in Central and South America and Cuba.
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In one short afternoon at the Center's HQ at Bentsen State Park, we saw orange orioles, green jays, mockingbirds, kingfishers and gnatcatchers, while a walk through the grounds of the beautiful Quinta Mazatlan estate revealed hummingbirds zipping among the trees.
TheGreatEscape: Take a walk on the wild side by Birmingham Mail (England)
In one short afternoon at the Center's HQ at Bentsen State Park, we saw orange orioles, green jays, mockingbirds, kingfishers and gnatcatchers, while a walk through the grounds of the beautiful Quinta Mazatlan estate revealed hummingbirds zipping among the trees.
Take a walk on the wild side; The great escape by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
The 4,000-acre (1,620-hectare) Starr Ranch Sanctuary, a National Audubon Society preserve in Orange County, California, shelters at least 22 nesting pairs of gnatcatchers and approximately 1,964 acres (795 ha) of undisturbed coastal sage scrub.
Partners restore coastal sage scrub habitat by DeSimone, Sandy / Endangered Species Update
 
 
 
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