Black-capped Gnatcatcher
Polioptila nigriceps Baird, SF, 1864
Polioptilidae — Gnatcatchers
Black-capped Gnatcatcher, Polioptila nigriceps, is a passerine of the gnatcatcher family that breeds in south-western USA and north-western to western Mexico. It is a small songbird with a long, slim bill and a long black tail edged with white on the outer feathers. Breeding males show a glossy black cap, while females have greyer upperparts with less blue than males outside the breeding season. It has been treated as the same species as the white-lored gnatcatcher, and two subspecies are recognised.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Polioptilidae — Gnatcatchers
- Breeding range
- North America, Middle America: sw USA and nw, w Mexico
