White-lored Gnatcatcher
Polioptila albiloris Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1860
Polioptilidae — Gnatcatchers
White-lored Gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiloris, is a passerine of the gnatcatcher family that breeds in Middle America from western Mexico to Costa Rica. It is a bird of arid and semi-arid country, including scrub, thorn forest, deciduous woodland and secondary growth, and it avoids the inside of tall forest. The species has two subspecies. The male in breeding plumage shows a black cap reaching the nape, with bluish grey upperparts and a black tail edged with white outer feathers. The female has a dark grey cap and the white lores and supercilium that give the bird its name.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Polioptilidae — Gnatcatchers
- Breeding range
- Middle America: w Mexico to Costa Rica
