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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: mc on May 13, 2014, 05:55:25 PM

Title: flycatcher id request
Post by: mc on May 13, 2014, 05:55:25 PM

can someone help identify.....

Title: Re: flycatcher id request
Post by: American Redstart on May 13, 2014, 06:41:31 PM

Looks like a least.

Title: Re: flycatcher id request
Post by: mc on May 13, 2014, 07:59:03 PM

Quote from: "American Redstart"

Looks like a least.

thanks redstart.....why do you suppose "least"??

Title: Re: flycatcher id request
Post by: Henrique Pacheco on May 13, 2014, 08:27:23 PM

I don't know a lot about flycatchers but I also think least. I know that they are passing through now. I also think the solid eye-ring is a good clue for least. But flycatchers are pretty hard to differentiate unless they vocalize.

Title: Re: flycatcher id request
Post by: winz on May 14, 2014, 07:03:46 AM

The bill on this bird looks more like a vireo's bill

Title: Re: flycatcher id request
Post by: Brian Bailey on May 14, 2014, 02:02:07 PM

It's an Empidonax flycatcher.  The bold eye ring suggests Least, but they are notoriously difficult to identify without hearing them call. Least are generally the first to arrive, but any of the species could be here by now.  

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