How to Use gnatcatcher in a Sentence

gnatcatcher

noun

• Merrill said the gnatcatcher is doing much better than the pocket mouse.
  — Ben Brazil, Daily Pilot, 27 July 2019
• But where some of the smaller species, such as the busy gnatcatcher, may be harder to find, the starlings are aggressive extroverts, loud and pushy and proud.
  — Kimberly Miller, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2021
• There was also a buff-breasted sandpiper, a cliff swallow, a blue-gray gnatcatcher, and a Northern waterthrush.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• In Easton, a blue-gray gnatcatcher was sighted on the campus of Stonehill College.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• In light of that, the property might need to be surveyed for coastal California gnatcatchers, which are a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
  — Daniel Langhorne, latimes.com, 4 June 2019
• A 2016 bird count tallied multiple species of herons, cormorants, pelicans, hawks, plover, gnatcatchers, quail, and terns, among others.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 July 2017
• Its hillsides and areas around the base are full of coastal sage scrub and prickly pear cacti, providing habitat for the California gnatcatcher and coastal cactus wren.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 5 July 2017
• Other birds that were spotted last week included four blue-gray gnatcatchers, three wood thrushes, a field sparrow, and five Eastern meadowlarks.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
• She identified by ear a cedar waxwing, a reclusive wood thrush, a gray catbird (with its catty mew), a red-winged blackbird, a tree swallow, several cardinals and a frenetic blue-gray gnatcatcher.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 14 May 2017
• There were also four great crested flycatchers, seven blue-gray gnatcatchers, and an early Lincoln’s sparrow.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
• However, the court rejected arguments from environmentalists that new homes posed dramatic threats to the gnatcatcher, a type of songbird, and the spadefoot toad.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
• Additional sightings included 400 tree swallows, a blue-gray gnatcatcher, a brown thrasher, and two rusty blackbirds.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• Observers also spotted two blue-gray gnatcatchers, two magnolia warblers, and 13 pine warblers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Docents will discuss the Pacific pocket mouse and the California gnatcatcher.
  — Oc Disney Staff, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2017
• There were several family groups of Carolina chickadees, tufted titmice and blue-gray gnatcatchers; flocks that often beckon traveling migrants to join in.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 23 Aug. 2017
• As the head of the Chaparral Institute, his opposition is strongly informed by a mission to protect native chaparral and coastal sage scrub habitat, which service everything from the gnatcatchers to trapdoor spiders.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
• The California gnatcatcher, Polioptila californica, is a little gray bird.
  — Zach St. George, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021

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