Black-capped gnatcatcher

Adults are blue-grey on the upperparts with white underparts, with a long slender bill and a long black tail with white outer tailbands on the uppertail. The undertail is extensively white, showing black only along a thin vertical center line and at the very tip. Males show a prominent black cap. This species is very similar to the California Gnatcatcher and the Black-tailed Gnatcatcher.

The Black-capped gnatcatcher is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Black-capped Gnatcatcher, Polioptila nigriceps, is a very small songbird. Adults are blue-grey on the upperparts with white underparts, with a long slender bill and a long black tail with white outer tailbands on the uppertail. The undertail is extensively white, showing black only along a thin vertical center line and at the very tip. Males show a prominent black cap. This species is very similar to the California Gnatcatcher and the Black-tailed Gnatcatcher. More

The Black-capped Gnatcatcher is a small songbird which breeds in the woodlands of western and northwestern Mexico. It can at times be found in southern Arizona as well, especially during the summer months. This species is largely non-migratory, and tends to stay in or near its breeding grounds all year long. They are foragers, feeding on insects on land or in air. More

Remember when Black-capped Gnatcatcher was a big deal, red-letter news, Birding-back-cover material? It’s still a great bird anywhere north of the Mexican border, but the past several years have seen the apparent establishment of what was for nearly 30 years a first-rate rarity here in southeast Arizona. Nubs and I had almost given up last Saturday morning when we heard the whining chatter of a singing gnatcatcher in an oak tree overhead. More

Black-capped Gnatcatcher: Resident of western Mexico, rare breeder in southeastern Arizona, recently documented breeding in extreme southwestern New Mexico. Breeding and Nesting Black-capped Gnatcatcher: Male and female build cup nest 6 to 13 feet above the ground, in medium sized shrub or small tree, often mesquite, juniper, or acacia. Female lays two to six pale blue eggs flecked with red brown. Both sexes incubate and tend young. More

Black-capped Gnatcatcher is a tiny (4 ? in.) blue-gray songbird. The male displays a black cap through the nesting season. The females and non-breeding males look very similar to the other gnatcatchers found in the southwest. They may be identified by the lack of an eye ring and their black tail with extensive white undertail feathers. Because of its small size, and limited distribution, Black-capped Gnatcatchers are usually difficult to see unless a male is singing. More

Black-capped Gnatcatchers were first found in Montosa Canyon on 1 October 2003 by Rich Hoyer, Brian McKnight and Peter Solomon. A pair has been resident there ever since and a second pair was located this winter. These photographs were taken by Christopher Taylor on 24 February 2008 and by Tom Crabtee on 23 Februray 2008. The first US record of Black-capped Gnatcatcher was in Arizona in 1971 along Sonoita Creek near the Patagonia Roadside Rest. More

Black-capped Gnatcatchers in Florida Canyon were first reported by Philip Kline on 22 October 2008 but had been known to be in the canyon for quite a while before that. This male was photographed by Tom Benson on 30 March 2009. Black-capped Gnatcatcher is a casual to rare species in Arizona that has become resident and breeds in limited areas in southeast Arizona. More

The adult Black-capped Gnatcatcher has blue-gray upperparts, black tail, gray-white underparts and a black cap. Black-capped Gnatcatcher . Bird database and its related content, illustrations and media is Copyright © 2002 - 2007 Whatbird.com All rights reserved. No part of this web site may be reproduced without written permission from Mitch Waite Group. Privacy Policy. Percevia® Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Bird Call Credits: The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. More

Black-capped Gnatcatcher has much less black on underside of tail, almost completely white with black extending lengthwise down middle, longer bill, and less distinct eye ring. California Gnatcatcher is darker and more dusky overall with more brown tones throughout, tail almost completely black on underside with very little white edging. All species have different vocalizations. Flight Pattern Short flights usually within low vegetation. More

Black-capped Gnatcatcher, and there in the twigs in front of us sat a fledgling, then another, then another, then another! At least one heavily tail-molting adult was in attendance on them, a bird with no obvious black in the head. The young ‘uns fed themselves on eggs and tiny insects scraped from twigs, but they weren’t yet too grown-up to beg when their parent captured a big caterpillar, which the most importunate of the siblings managed to swallow whole. More

A family of Black-capped Gnatcatchers, Polioptila nigriceps, has been observed in the Proctor Road area of Madera Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains of Southeast Arizona, last reported by Melody Kehl, on 4 July. Although Black-capped Gnatcatcher is considered an endemic to northwest Mexico, it has bred irregularly in Arizona, more frequently in recent years. It was first discovered in the U.S. More

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The black-capped gnatcatcher lives in Asia. Gnatcatchers belong to the family Sylviinae. The blue-gray gnatcatcher is Polioptila caerulea; black-tailed, P. melanura; black-capped, P. nigriceps. More

The first target bird we got was the Black-capped Gnatcatchers in Patagonia St. park - two of them, which had been reported in this area for a few months. So after we had all spread out and followed their calls we were able to locate these two difficult to find birds by scrambling up the side of a hill! Next came the Lawrence's Goldfinches at the "Pima Co. More