Tropical Gnatcatchers are small insect eating songbirds. They live throughout much of the neotropical forests.

Tropical Gnatcatchers have a habit of keeping their tail erect similar to the wrens.

Classification

Order:  Passeriformes
Family:  Polioptilidae
Genus:  Polioptila
Species:  P. plumbea

Photos:

Balança-rabo-de-máscara / Polioptila plumbea / Tropical Gnatcatcher

Tropical Gnatcatcher (Polioptila plumbea)

Video:

I have not been able to find video of this species. If you have a video, please leave a comment. 

Discussion: 

balbina forest and stresemann’s bristlefront

others were tropical gnatcatcher, yellow-bellied and white-throated seedeaters. eventually we found our way along the slippery path overlooking a densely scrubby valley, where the low vegetatio…   Read more…

tropical gnatcatcher split

can anyone help me with the relative distributions of the potential splits within tropical gnatcatcher ie tropical gnatcatcher polioptila plumbea and white-browed gnatcatcher polioptila …   Read more…

belize: day 7 (february 26th)

this morning brought only a couple species: olivaceous woodcreeper, cinnamon becard, tropical gnatcatcher, and carolina wren. next was a long trip to the belize airport. but before we went ther…   Read more…

october 2007

tropical gnatcatcher 39. fork-tailed palmswift. sao luis 40. tropical kingbird 41. snowy egret 42. little blue heron. lencois maranhenses national park 43. ringed kingfisher 44. amazon kingfish…   Read more…