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
  • From a distance, they are easily confused with other gnatcatchers, vireos and kinglets.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Feb. 2024
  • There was also a buff-breasted sandpiper, a cliff swallow, a blue-gray gnatcatcher, and a Northern waterthrush.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • All told, people spotted more than 80 different avian species munching on the insects, from large trumpeter swans to teeny-tiny blue-gray gnatcatchers.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Of note is the California gnatcatcher songbird found in the Los Peñasquitos Lagoon to the north.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
  • There were also four great crested flycatchers, seven blue-gray gnatcatchers, and an early Lincoln’s sparrow.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • In Easton, a blue-gray gnatcatcher was sighted on the campus of Stonehill College.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Observers also spotted two blue-gray gnatcatchers, two magnolia warblers, and 13 pine warblers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Additional sightings included 400 tree swallows, a blue-gray gnatcatcher, a brown thrasher, and two rusty blackbirds.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • The land is mostly covered with coastal sage scrub and supports species such as the coastal California gnatcatcher, golden eagle and Quino checkerspot butterfly.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Docents will discuss the Pacific pocket mouse and the California gnatcatcher.
    — Oc Disney Staff, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 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
  • This roughly 1-mile walk takes hikers alongside Morrison Pond, a small but scenic body of water in Bonita that’s home to waterfowl such as ruddy ducks and egrets, as well as other birds like the least bell’s vireo and coastal California gnatcatcher.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025

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