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Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers

Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers

11 Bird Species
Arctic Warbler

Arctic Warbler

This is the only member of the Old World warblers that breeds in North America. Note the long primary projection, pale legs and feet, and pale lower mandible. The upperparts are olive-gray to olive brown, with a very thin whitish wing bar. The white supercilium often curves upward at the back. The au more...

Length: 11 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Black-capped Gnatcatcher

Black-capped Gnatcatcher

This species is a rare visitor from Mexico, to be expected only in Southeastern Arizona. In basic plumage, most closely resembles Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, but has a longer, darker bill, and a more graduated tail (outer tail feathers are significantly shorter than central tail feathers). From below, the more...

Length: 11 cm Wingspan: 15 cm

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

This species, formerly lumped with California Gnatcatcher, is best distinguished by the tail pattern. From below, the tail appears mostly black, with white spots on the ends of the outer two sets of tail feathers. Alternate Male: Blue-gray above, with a black cap, white eye ring, mostly black tail, a more...

Length: 10 cm Wingspan: 15 cm

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Like other gnatcatchers, this is a tiny active songbird. The upperparts are light blue-gray with a prominent white eye ring and white edges on the tertials. The tail is black with white outer tail feathers. The bill is fine, fairly short, and pale gray in color. The underparts are whitish. In alterna more...

Length: 10 cm Wingspan: 15 cm

California Gnatcatcher

California Gnatcatcher

A tiny, long-tailed, gray bird of Southern California. Alternate adult male is bluish-gray overall with dark wings, long dark tail, pale throat, black cap, thin eye ring, and slender, pointed bill. Underside of tail is mostly dark. Basic adult male lacks black on head except for a spot over the eye. more...

Length: 11 cm Wingspan: 14 cm

Dusky Warbler

Dusky Warbler

A drab, brownish Asian bird, very rare in Alaska and California. Adult is greenish-brown overall with plain brown upperparts; clean whitish and buffy-brown underparts; and dusky face with pale supercilium, thin pale arc beneath eye, and slender dark bill. Wings lack wing bars and show short primary p more...

Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 19 cm

Lesser Whitethroat

Lesser Whitethroat

Distinctive Old World Warbler. Gray head with darker gray mask. Extensive white throat wrapping around to lower back edge of mask. Small dark bill. Dark eye. Olive-brown back, wings and rump. Whitish underparts with indistinct faint brownish flanks. Dark tail with inconspicuous pale outer tail feathe more...

Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 21 cm

Pallas's Leaf Warbler

Pallas's Leaf Warbler

Tiny kinglet-sized Old World warbler with a distinctively striped head pattern. Fresh adult: Rich olive-green upperparts, darker dusky olive crown crisply divided by a pale yellow median stripe and bordered by broad supercilia that are yellow between the eyes and the bill and gradually fade to creamy more...

Length: 9 cm Wingspan: 14 cm

Willow Warbler

Willow Warbler

Small Old World warbler with whitish underparts and and olive-brown upperparts. Sometimes has pale yellow on throat and breast. Some yellow wash on the sides of the breast and on the flanks and vent. White supercilium and dark eyeline. Small, partially pale bill and pale legs. Similar to Wood Warbler more...

Length: 11 cm Wingspan: 19 cm

Wood Warbler

Wood Warbler

Small, colorful Old World warbler with relatively long wings and short tail. Olive-green upperparts. White underparts with yellow on upper breast, throat and supercilium. Dark eyeline. Small black bill with pinkish-orange lower mandible. Pinkish legs. Arctic Warbler usually shows a wingbar. Willow Wa more...

Length: 12 cm Wingspan: 22 cm

Yellow-browed Warbler

Yellow-browed Warbler

A small, mostly olive-colored leaf warbler with two conspicuous cream-colored wingbars. A long dusky gray eyeline extends well beyond the eye, and an extremely long creamy-yellow supercilium extends all the way to the nape. Underparts are dingy off-white with a olive-green wash on the sides of the br more...

Length: 11 cm Wingspan: 18 cm

  • Arctic Warbler

    Arctic Warbler

    3 Photographs
  • Black-capped Gnatcatcher

    Black-capped Gnatcatcher

    0 Photographs
  • Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

    Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

    8 Photographs
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

    Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

    13 Photographs
  • California Gnatcatcher

    California Gnatcatcher

    6 Photographs
  • Dusky Warbler

    Dusky Warbler

    0 Photographs
  • Lesser Whitethroat

    Lesser Whitethroat

    0 Photographs
  • Pallas's Leaf Warbler

    Pallas's Leaf Warbler

    0 Photographs
  • Willow Warbler

    Willow Warbler

    0 Photographs
  • Wood Warbler

    Wood Warbler

    0 Photographs
  • Yellow-browed Warbler

    Yellow-browed Warbler

    0 Photographs

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Non-vegetated Areas

0 species

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Salt Water

0 species

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Human-altered Areas

0 species

Fresh-water-sm

Fresh Water

0 species

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Grassland and Scrubland

4 species

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Polioptila melanura

Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Polioptila caerulea

Chapparal, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest, Dry Western Woodlands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia
California Gnatcatcher

California Gnatcatcher

Polioptila californica

Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal
Lesser Whitethroat

Lesser Whitethroat

Sylvia curruca

Open Country and Grasslands, Thickets
Forest-and-woodlands-sm

Forest and Woodlands

10 species

Arctic Warbler

Arctic Warbler

Phylloscopus borealis

Boreal Forest
Black-capped Gnatcatcher

Black-capped Gnatcatcher

Polioptila nigriceps

Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Polioptila melanura

Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Polioptila caerulea

Chapparal, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest, Dry Western Woodlands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia
Dusky Warbler

Dusky Warbler

Phylloscopus fuscatus

Boreal Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps
Lesser Whitethroat

Lesser Whitethroat

Sylvia curruca

Open Country and Grasslands, Thickets
Pallas's Leaf Warbler

Pallas's Leaf Warbler

Phylloscopus proregulus

Boreal Forest
Willow Warbler

Willow Warbler

Phylloscopus trochilus

Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets
Wood Warbler

Wood Warbler

Phylloscopus sibilatrix

Oak Savannah and Woodlands
Yellow-browed Warbler

Yellow-browed Warbler

Phylloscopus inornatus

Boreal Forest
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