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CERRILLOS HILLS HISTORIC PARK







Gnatcatchers

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - confirmed presence, Spring & Fall, riparian

Polioptila caerulea

Size: 4.5" - Old World Warbler

Blue-gray above; white below; eye ring white; male: black line over eye summer; tail black, white outer feathers. Often wags tail sideways.

Song thin, wheezy.


IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS Sighted at the Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group -- 7,000 to 9,000 feet elevation -- eight miles south of Cerrillos.)

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - as of '04





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