A tiny grey-backed New World songbird, with a long tail that is often cocked.
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Genus Polioptila, family Polioptilidae (or Sylviidae): several species
Example sentencesExamples
The nameless gnatcatcher is a highly endangered bird, whose total population he estimates at between 50 and 80 pairs.
A rainbow of darts shoots through the limbs - a capeful of purple finch, three blue-gray gnatcatchers, a pair of cedar waxwings, and countless ruby-crowned kinglets.
Once the exotic plants are removed, the land will be restored to coastal sage scrub for gnatcatchers and other native species.
Hence, the quail and the gnatcatcher might both be relatively recent arrivals in the north.
Titmice, chickadees, gnatcatchers, grackles, and swifts came and went.
Definition of gnatcatcher in US English:
gnatcatcher
nounˈnatˌkaCHər
A tiny gray-backed New World songbird, with a long tail that is often cocked.
蚋莺
Genus Polioptila, family Polioptilidae (or Sylviidae): several species
Example sentencesExamples
Hence, the quail and the gnatcatcher might both be relatively recent arrivals in the north.
Titmice, chickadees, gnatcatchers, grackles, and swifts came and went.
The nameless gnatcatcher is a highly endangered bird, whose total population he estimates at between 50 and 80 pairs.
A rainbow of darts shoots through the limbs - a capeful of purple finch, three blue-gray gnatcatchers, a pair of cedar waxwings, and countless ruby-crowned kinglets.
Once the exotic plants are removed, the land will be restored to coastal sage scrub for gnatcatchers and other native species.