How To Use Gnatcatcher In A Sentence
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Birds of concern include the brown pelican, lesser tern, osprey, black rail, clapper rail, California gnatcatcher and savannah sparrow.
Southern California Coast (Bailey)
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The California gnatcatcher is currently being used as an umbrella species to protect the endemic flora and fauna of this region from urban development.
California coastal sage and chaparral
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Sure, some birds have names that describe their activities, such as flycatcher, or gnatcatcher, or their general appearance, such as bluebird, or the place they tend to loiter, such as cowbird.
Birding season: No grousing or sniping
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Owing to 1990s protections for the gnatcatcher, a threatened bird species native to Southern California, and many other kinds of development restrictions, other large areas have been set aside to protect what are ostensibly places to experience the inspiration of wild nature -- all this amid 20 million people.
Man vs. Wild
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Take the case of the coastal California gnatcatcher, a diminutive, grayish blue songbird with a home range limited to coastal southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico.
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Titmice, chickadees, gnatcatchers, grackles, and swifts came and went.
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Titmice, chickadees, gnatcatchers, grackles, and swifts came and went.
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A commonly cited example of this controversy is the conservation effort based on the California gnatcatcher (a songbird).
Umbrella species
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Existing laws offer only minimal protection; these include the Natural Communities Conservation Planning Program (NCCP) of 1991 that restricts destruction of some coastal sage scrub, and the Endangered Species Act listing of the California gnatcatcher, which created restrictions on destruction of habitat for extant birds.
California coastal sage and chaparral
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Researchers found that areas where the gnatcatcher lived did not necessarily support populations of three insect species that share habitat with the bird.
Umbrella species
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The most abundant breeding birds include the cardinal, tufted titmouse, wood thrush, summer tanager, red-eyed vireo, blue-gray gnatcatcher, and Carolina wren.
Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Oceanic) Province (Bailey)
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Once the exotic plants are removed, the land will be restored to coastal sage scrub for gnatcatchers and other native species.
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A rainbow of darts shoots through the limbs - a capeful of purple finch, three blue-gray gnatcatchers, a pair of cedar waxwings, and countless ruby-crowned kinglets.
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Hence, the quail and the gnatcatcher might both be relatively recent arrivals in the north.
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Pacific-slope Flycatcher, and perhaps a Western warbler or two to my life list, the gnatcatcher was my primary target.
10,000 Birds
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The nameless gnatcatcher is a highly endangered bird, whose total population he estimates at between 50 and 80 pairs.
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Therefore, using the gnatcatcher as an umbrella species did not offer enough protection for all three of those insect species.
Umbrella species
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We were pleased to come up with two beauties we haven't seen since we started birding, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and American Redstart.
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Sure, some birds have names that describe their activities, such as flycatcher, or gnatcatcher, or their general appearance, such as bluebird, or the place they tend to loiter, such as cowbird.
Birding season: No grousing or sniping
