Adult male Blue-gray Gnatcatcher looking curious, West Desert, Tooele County, Utah

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Images, Facts and Information:

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  • Blue-gray Gnatcatchers are tiny perching birds with blue-gray upperparts, white underparts, dark wings, long black tails with white edges and white eye rings.
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatchers are migratory. They breed from Oregon across to Minnesota, the Great Lakes, Ontario and New Hampshire southward and spend winters from southern California to the Carolinas and the Gulf Coast. Blue-gray Gnatcatchers preferred habitats include pinyon-juniper forests, streamside thickets, chaparral, live oaks and deciduous woodlands.
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatchers eat spiders, butterflies, flies, ants, beetles, moths, bees, wasps, and aphids.
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatchers lay 4 to 5 eggs which hatch in 13 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatchers live to be at least 4 years of age.

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