Examples of gnatcatcher in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Early migrants reported from Santuit Pond in Mashpee included a great-crested flycatcher and a blue-gray gnatcatcher, and other sightings included a blue-winged teal, 68 ring-necked ducks, 2 bald eagles, and 16 osprey. — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2022 Reports included a Virginia rail, a sora, a yellow-breasted chat and a clay-colored sparrow at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, and a blue-gray gnatcatcher in the Belle Isle Cemetery in East Boston. — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2021 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 In Easton, a blue-gray gnatcatcher was sighted on the campus of Stonehill College. — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021 Other interesting reports included a cackling goose in Plymouth, two cattle egrets in the Chiltonville section of Plymouth, and a blue-gray gnatcatcher at Manomet Bird Observatory. — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021 Two blue grosbeaks and a blue-gray gnatcatcher were seen at Horn Pond in Woburn, and two red-necked grebes were seen at the Cambridge Reservoir in Waltham. — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021 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 Mock suggested that Atwood petition the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the California gnatcatcher under the Endangered Species Act. — Zach St. George, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021 See More

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