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- Polioptila caerulea
Identification
Description: 4 1/2 -5" (11-13 cm). Smaller than a sparrow. Tiny, slender, long-tailed bird, blue-gray above and white below, with white eye ring and broad white borders on black tail. Looks like a miniature mockingbird.
Habitat: Deciduous woodlands, streamside thickets, live oaks, pinyon-juniper, chaparral.
Nesting: 4 or 5 brown-spotted pale blue eggs in a small, beautifully made cup of plant down and spider webs, decorated with flakes of lichen and fastened to a horizontal branch at almost any height above ground.
Range: Breeds from northern California, Colorado, southern Great Lakes region, southern Ontario, and New Hampshire southward. Winters north to southern California, Gulf Coast, and Carolinas.
Voice: Song is a thin, musical warble. Call note a distinctive, whining pzzzz, with a nasal quality.
