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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
| Color: |
Blue, Gray |
| Size: |
4.5" |
| Season: |
Summer |
| Description: |
Tiny, blue-gray overall. The tail is black above with white outer tail feathers. |
| Voice: |
Song is a jumble of high wheezy whistles, chips, and mews, like a tiny Gray Catbird. The call note, a persistent, thin whiney zeee, is heard more often than the song.
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| Habitat: |
Riparian forest, cypress-tupelo swamp, upland hardwood forest, and pine flatwoods with an oak understory. |
| Interesting Fact: |
The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher often spreads it white outer tail feathers when foraging, possibly to scare insects out of hiding. |
| Scientific name: |
Polioptila caerulea |
| Order: |
Passeriformes |
| Family: |
Sylviidae |
Adult Howard Eskin |
Adult Howard Eskin |
Nest Delos McCauley |
Young in the nest Delos McCauley |
Female on nest Delos McCauley |
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