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This search box can be used to find bird species using bird's english, french or latin name, or to identify bird by its 4 letter Alpha Code

Field Guide for all the Birds of North America


Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

4 Letter (english names) Alpha Code: BTGN (1)

Gobemoucheron à queue noire

Polioptila melanura

Information, images and range maps on over 1,000 birds of North America, including sub-species, vagrants, introduced birds and possibilities

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Life, Habitat & Pictures of North American Gnatcatchers


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gnatcatchers

The Black-tailed Gnatcatcher lives in the central areas of the most southern states of the USA and into Mexico. This gnatcatcher is quite similar in appearance to the California and the Black-capped Gnatcatchers. Careful observation of the amount of white shown at the end of the undertail feathers is needed for identification.

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References to Other Bird Sites:

Avibase - the world bird database This site provides the user with a complete list of bird species, broken down per country, or in the example of the US or Canada, per state and province. Here, bird species names are available in other languages, a great asset to be used as a translation of foreign bird names.

ABA - American Birding Association This site represents an organization that maintains official records of all birds species that have been proven to have been seen inside the perimeters of the North American Continent and the surrounding bodies of water. Regular revised versions are posted to keep the bird list current at all times. This is the list used by all serious birders over their lifetime. You may be aware of the movie called the "Big Year". It was with this list that all the competing birders used in an attempt to set a new record as to how many bird species that could be seen by an individual birder in one calendar year.

I hope you will take advantage of these suggested websites. I have used each of them, in one way or another, throughout the years in my quest to better identify and understand our fine feathered friends.


Classic Collection of North American Birds

CCNAB

B L W W W Family Latin Name
4.5" 11.4cm 5.5" 14cm 0.2 oz 5.7g Polioptilidae Polioptila melanura