Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: takkatakka on May 20, 2014, 08:39:38 PM

Title: Flycatcher?
Post by: takkatakka on May 20, 2014, 08:39:38 PM

We think this is a Willow Flycatcher.

Please help us ID this beautiful bird.

Thanks in advance

Title: Re: Flycatcher?
Post by: American Redstart on May 20, 2014, 08:46:53 PM

It is a flycatcher in the empidonax group.
There is not much of an eye-ring so I would lean towards willow or alder.
The only reliable way to identify these two is through sound.

Title: Re: Flycatcher?
Post by: takkatakka on May 20, 2014, 08:53:35 PM

Too bad we didn't get its song on recording.

Next time.

Thanks,