Birds of the World - Polioptila


White-lored Gnatcatcher (Polioptila albiloris vanrossemi) Male Range: MA: w Mexico to Costa Rica Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico Male, breeding plumage.
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


White-lored Gnatcatcher (Polioptila albiloris albiloris) Male Range: MA: w Mexico to Costa Rica Playa Azul, Tarcoles, Costa Rica Male, non-breeding plumage.
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.

Compare to Tropical Gnatcatcher and White-browed Gnatcatcher. Female is like non-breeding male, but with grey instead of black.


Yucatan Gnatcatcher (Polioptila albiventris) Male Range: MA: n Yucatán Pen. (se Mexico) Yucatan, Mexico
Photograph by Edward Boyd © All Rights Reserved.

Split from the White-lored Gnatcatcher. Whiter underneath and with shorter tail (HBW).

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Inambari Gnatcatcher (Polioptila attenboroughi) Range: SA: sw Amazonian Brazil


White-browed Gnatcatcher (Polioptila bilineata brodkorbi) Male Range: MA, SA: s Mexico to nw Peru Belize
Photograph by Danny Bales © All Rights Reserved.


White-browed Gnatcatcher (Polioptila bilineata) Female Range: MA, SA: s Mexico to nw Peru Turrucares, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.


Blue-grey Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea caerulea) Range: NA, MA: se Canada to Nicaragua Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Florida, United States
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica californica) Range: NA, MA: sw USA and nw Mexico California, United States
Photograph by Dominic Sherony Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

Similar to Black-capped Gnatcatcher and Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, and best identified by range (only found in California and Baja California).

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Iquitos Gnatcatcher (Polioptila clementsi) Range: SA: ne Peru


Masked Gnatcatcher (Polioptila dumicola) Range: SA: c, se Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Masked Gnatcatcher (Polioptila dumicola) Male Range: SA: c, se Palmar National Park, Argentina
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

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Rio Negro Gnatcatcher (Polioptila facilis) Range: SA: nw Amazonian Brazil

A nondescript grey gnatcatcher, male and female similar, lighter underneath, and with black tail.


Guianan Gnatcatcher (Polioptila guianensis) Range: SA: e Venezuela, the Guianas and n Brazil Manaus, Brazil
Photograph by Joe Tobias © All Rights Reserved.

One of several split from the Tropical Gnatcatcher, but all very similar. Note all white undertail and broken eye ring. Found north of the Amazon river.

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Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher (Polioptila lactea) Range: SA: e Paraguay, ne Argentina and s Brazil

Yellower than other gnatcatchers.


Cuban Gnatcatcher (Polioptila lembeyei) Range: NA: Cuba Cayo Romano, Cuba
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Maranon Gnatcatcher (Polioptila maior) Range: SA: n Peru


Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (Polioptila melanura) Male Range: NA, MA: sw USA and n Mexico Sweetwater Wetlands, Tuscon, Arizona,
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Best identified by voice. Black-tailed has all black tail except for white tips on undertail, and edges of outer two feathers.


Black-capped Gnatcatcher (Polioptila nigriceps restricta) Male Range: NA, MA: sw USA and nw, w Mexico Patagonia Lake, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States
Photograph by Alan Schmierer Image has been placed in the Public Domain.


Black-capped Gnatcatcher (Polioptila nigriceps restricta) Female Range: NA, MA: sw USA and nw, w Mexico Madera Canyon, Arizona, United States
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Best identified by voice. To differentiate from Black-tailed Gnatcatcher look at undertail, which is mostly white.


Para Gnatcatcher (Polioptila paraensis) Range: SA: se Amazonian Brazil Pouso Alegre, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Photograph by Bruno Conjeaud © All Rights Reserved.


Tropical Gnatcatcher (Polioptila plumbea) Male Range: SA: c, e Colombia to Peru and ne Brazil Los Flamencos Wildlife Sanctuary, Camarones, La Guajira, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Tropical Gnatcatcher (Polioptila plumbea) Female Range: SA: c, e Colombia to Peru and ne Brazil Camarones, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Slate-throated Gnatcatcher (Polioptila schistaceigula) Range: MA, SA: Panama to Ecuador Río Silanche Bird Sanctuary, Pichincha province, Ecuador
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.