#Polioptila caerulea

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Blue-grey Gnatcatcher & Peregrine Falcon

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Blue-gray Gnatcatchers

Virginia, April 2024.

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Blue-grey Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) 4/15/23

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There is something under here.

Here is a little blue gray gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) hunting prey under the grass. She's a female, I think, or maybe a nonbreeding male. Males have a distinct black eyebrow.

"The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher's grayish coloring and long tail, as well as the way it mixes snippets of other birds' repertoires into its own high, nasal songs, have earned it the nickname "Little Mockingbird."" - allabutbirds.org

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[1468/10977] Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caerulea

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Certhioidea Family: Polioptilidae (gnatcatchers)

Photo credit: Michael Stubblefield via Macaulay Library

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blue-gray gnatcatcher (polioptila caerulea) - may 2022

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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) 05/10/2023 - 05/13/2023 NY & VT US #bluegraygnatcatcher #gnatcatcher #bestbackroad #bestbackroads #natgeoyourshots #natgeo100contest #natgeo #rutlandcountyvt #washingtoncountyny #whitehallny #wildphotography #naturephotography #adventurephotography #wildlifephotography — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/vwR01Oq

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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea)

April 10, 2022

Southeastern Pennsylvania

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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea)

© Mollie Langdon

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Blue-grey Gnatcatcher

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Polioptila caerulea by Rick Dunlap

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A new variant has been added!

Blue-grey Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) © Edwin L Sheppard

It hatches from black, blue, central, eastern, limited, long, northern, other, similar, soft, southern, thin, tiny, western, white, and whitish eggs.

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Blue-gray gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea).  One of four gnatcatchers native to North America and the only one to live on the eastern end.

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Perlita Azulgris. Polioptila caerulea. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.

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Hunter in the grass.

This tiny Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) was right outside the backdoor hunting in the grass. I had to take this shot through the storm door (in America, a storm door is an outer door made of glass).

"Blue-gray Gnatcatchers eat small insects, spiders, and other invertebrates. Prey species vary across their extensive range. In the Southwest, for example, prey include treehoppers, froghoppers, leaf hoppers, plant bugs, tree bugs, leaf beetles, weevils, wolf spiders, caterpillars, and grasshoppers. In the Northeast, adult and larval moths can provide up to half of prey taken. The smallest prey are swallowed alive. The wings are torn off larger prey and their bodies beaten on a perch prior to being eaten. Parents generally feed the young these same foods, offering progressively larger whole prey as the chicks mature." - allaboutbirds.org