RFW Bird-watching Resources

  Gnatcatchers

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

(Polioptila caerulea)

Family: Polioptilidae
Common Family Grouping:
Gnatcatchers
4-Letter Species Code: bggn
Size: Very Small

Click Range Map to Enlarge
Male   Rio Fernando Wetlands
Photo by: Tom Jackman

Adult Female   Orilla Verde

Adult   Rio Arriba County
Search the web for photos of:
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher


Season - Abundance Status:
Spring-Fall Transient - Rare
Small numbers stay the summer and breed.

Link to USGS Site with more information: USGS

Hear sounds of Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at xeno-canto.org

Range data provided by Infonatura/Natureserve. Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Alnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2005 Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 2.1 NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA

eBird and CBC Graphs created with Google Charts: https://developers.google.com/chart

Data for CBC Graph: National Audubon Society (2020). The Christmas Bird Count Historical Results Online. Available http://www.christmasbirdcount.org November, 2020

Data for eBird Graph: eBird. 2021. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed: January 7, 2021).