Usage examples (31)

• Pacific-slope Flycatcher, and perhaps a Western warbler or two to my life list, the gnatcatcher was my primary target.
• A commonly cited example of this controversy is the conservation effort based on the California gnatcatcher (a songbird).
• Therefore, using the gnatcatcher as an umbrella species did not offer enough protection for all three of those insect species.
• Birds of concern include the brown pelican, lesser tern, osprey, black rail, clapper rail, California gnatcatcher and savannah sparrow.