Birds are the beautiful creations of God. Birds are found almost everywhere flying in the open sky, chirping on trees, and resting on various nests. Birds can be found in every color with very different characteristics. Today, differentiating on the basis of their color here is a list of some gray birds who are having gray bodies or gray feathers.
Gray Birds
1. American bushtit
Bushtit can grow up to 11 cm long and usually weighs between 5 to 6 grams. It is found in the bushes, thickets, oak forests, and woodlands of North America. It has a life expectancy of up to 9 years. Bushtit has a minute small body of gray or brown color with dark upper sides, males with dark eyes, and females having yellow eyes, large head, small bill, short neck, and long tail. It is a carnivore bird species feeding on small insects, spiders, and invertebrates.
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2. Boreal Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee can grow around 4 inches tall and weighs about 10 gram. It is found in the Coniferous Woods of North America. Boreal Chickadee is a very cute bird species with a gray head brown cap, gray face with white patches, brown belly, black throats, small black beaks, short wings, and a big tail. Boreal Chickadee is an omnivore species and depends mostly on insects, caterpillars, spiders, seeds, and invertebrates for nourishment.
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3. Gray Catbird
Gray Catbird is one of the beautiful gray birds that can grow up to 8 to 9 inches long and weighs around 0.077 lb. It is found usually in the bushy habitats and the rocky mountains of Mexico, the Caribbean, Western Europe, the American Cordillera, and the United States of America. It has a life anticipation of 11 months to 17 years.
Gray Catbird is an extremely cute and intelligent species with a gray body, tiny black cap towards the head, black beak, and pointed black tail. Gray Catbird is an omnivore bird feeding on berries and fruits, beetles, earthworms, mealworms, ants, bugs, grasshoppers, moths, caterpillars, cherries, blackberries, and elderberries.
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4. Carolina chickadee
Carolina Chickadee is one of the most beautiful birds in North Carolina can grow up to 15 to 20 cm long and weighs nearly 8 to 12 grams. It is found in the swamps, parks, urban areas, woodlands, riparian areas, and open woods of South Eastern America. It has an average life anticipation of 1.5 to 1.8 years.
Carolina Chickadee has a small body, light wings, back and tail, whitish or grey underparts, white cheeks, and a dark back and has a big head on a small neck looking like a circle shape. Just after 19 days of production, this bird begins to fly. Carolina Chickadee is an omnivore bird species that like to feed on berries, sunflower seeds, spiders, and small insects.
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5. Sandhill Crane
Sandhill Crane can grow nearly 3 to 5 feet tall and weighs around 6 to 14 lb. It is found in the wetlands, marshes, river valleys, and bogs of North America. It has a life anticipation of about 20 years. Sandhill Crane is a beautiful bird with gray feathers, a gray neck, white cheeks, a red mark on the forehead long splendid neck, and long and very thin legs. It can fly at a speed of about 25 to 35 mph. Sandhill Crane is an omnivore bird species nourishing mostly on plant matter, and grains but occasionally lizards, rodents, worms, insects, and birds.
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6. Gray Vireo
Gray Vireo can grow up to 130 to 148 mm long and has a weight of about 11.5 to 13.5 grams. It is found in the dry bushes, arid mountains, high plains, and chaparral of North America. It has an average lifespan of about 4 to 5 years. Gray Vireo has a grey colored small body, white or gray neck, light-colored belly, dark gray beak, eyes of white covering, wings covered with gray feathers, and bluish-gray feet. Gray Vireo is an omnivore bird species feeding on –plants, berries, beetles, moths, bugs, caterpillars, crickets, grasshoppers, and many more small insects.
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7. Mexican Chickadee
Mexican Chickadee can grow as long as 12.5 to 13.5 cm and weighs 7.5 to 11 grams. It is found in the mountains, coniferous forests, and pine-oak forests of the United States and Mexico. Its average life anticipation is estimated to be between 2 to 10 years. Mexican Chickadee has a gray back and gray flangs, light gray underside, dark gray neck, short beak, white cheeks, and a black cap. Mexican Chickadee is an omnivore species that nourishes mostly spiders, plants, berries, beetles, moths, bugs, caterpillars, crickets, grasshoppers, and many more small insects.
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8. Gray flycatcher
Gray flycatcher can grow up to 14 to 15 cm long and weighs around 11 to 14 grams. It is found in the sagebrush of the Great Basin. Gray flycatcher has a body covered with grey feathers on the upper side and white feathers on the underparts, a long yellow or pink beak with a black top, a yellow eye ring, and a long tail covered with gray wings. The gray flycatcher is an omnivore species that sometimes feeds on fruits and plants and mostly nourishes insects, moths, worms, caterpillars, and grasshoppers.
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9. American Dipper
American Dipper grows up to 7 to 8 inches long and weighs around 46 grams. It is found in the desert streams, mountain streams, seas, and river banks of Canada, Panama, North America, and Mexico. Its life expectancy is around 7 to 8 years. American Dipper has a gray body, brown head, gray wings, a tail covered with gray feathers, and a small beak. American Dipper is an omnivore and feeds mostly on aquatic insects like tadpoles, tiny fishes, fish eggs, larvae, and many more.
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10. Gray Jay
Gray Jay grows up to 25 to 33 cm long and weighs about 65 to 70 grams. It is found usually in the humid, boreal, and mature spruce forests of Mexico, North America, and Arizona. It is one of the most amazing gray birds in the world.
It has a life expectancy of about 8 years. Gray Jay has a light gray colored belly, white head having a gray crown, white forehead, big black tail, small black beak, and nails having white tips. It runs fly at a speed of 20 to 25 mph. Gray Jay is an omnivore bird species that like to feed mostly on seeds, berries, nuts, insects, fungi, mice, eggs, shrews, toads, small bats, and many more invertebrates.
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11. Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler is a small warbler bird species that breed in the region of the Western US, from southern British Columbia, Idaho, and Wyoming, southwards to northern Mexico. During winters, it will move towards western Mexico. The bird species can grow between 11 to 13 cm in length and the average weight is between 7 to 10 gms. The diet primarily includes insects during the breeding season and small green caterpillars which are pests for oaks.
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12. Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch is one of the most popular birds of North America and if forage is not available in the north. The flock will migrate to the south of North America for the season. The movement of the bird species is known as an irruption. It feeds primarily on conifer seeds, insects, caterpillars, beetles, wasps, crane flies, moths, and insect eggs. It can grow upto 4.5 in (11 cm) in length and the average weight is between 8.5 to 14.2 gms. The avarage lifespan of Red-breasted Nuthatch is upto 6 years in the wild.
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13. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
The Black-tailed gnatcatcher scientifically known as Polioptila melanura is a small insectivorous bird that is mostly seen in the regions of Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It can grow between length 4.5 to 5 inches in length. The average weight of a Black-tailed Gnatcatcher is upto 5 gms. The exact lifespan of the bird species is unknown in the world.
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14. Gray Hawk
The Gray hawk bird species are scientifically known as Buteo plagiatus mostly seen in the regions of open country and forest edges. It is also known as the Mexican goshawk and can grow between 46 to 61 cm in length and its average weight is upto 475 gms. The bird species primarily feed on vertebrates, and also some reptiles such as Whiptail Lizard and Spiny Lizard. The avarage lifespan of a gray hawk is unknown in the wild.
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15. Gray-cheeked Thrush
The Grey-cheeked is one of the beautiful gray birds that can grow between 15 to 17 cm in length and its average weight is between 26 to 30 gms. The avarage wingspan ranges between 12.6 to 13.4 inches. The primary diet includes insects, such as beetles, weevils, ants, wasps, and caterpillars, however, they are seen eating fruits and berries. The avarage lifespan of Gray-cheeked Thrush is unknown in the wild.
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16. Tufted Titmouse
The Tufted Totmouse is one of the beautiful gray birds of the North American region that will come offenly to collect sunflower seeds offered to them. It can grow between 15 to 17 cm in length with a total wingspan of between 23 to 28 cm. The avarage weight of a Tufted Titmouse is between 18 to 26 grams. Talking about its appearance, the underside of the bird species is white in color, howvever, they have rusty-brown sides and gray backs. The. Bills are short but stout and hardy. The avarage lifespan of a Tufted Titmouse is upto 2.1 years in the wild.
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