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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Dinusaur on May 27, 2015, 11:22:12 PM

Title: Flycatcher ID, please
Post by: Dinusaur on May 27, 2015, 11:22:12 PM

Three poses of the same bird at Colonel Sam Smith Park. Thanks in advance.

(https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7730/17994534318_7e496a3f8c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/tq7G8G)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8817/17996177019_df4a9d4512_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/tqg7s8)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8855/17994489578_5524816c9b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/tq7sQj)

Title: Re: Flycatcher ID, please
Post by: Brian Bailey on May 28, 2015, 07:17:59 AM

With the bold white eye ring and large head, I suspect it's a Least, but this family is notoriously difficult to ID by sight alone.  If I don't hear the call, I call most of them "Empidonax sp."


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Title: Re: Flycatcher ID, please
Post by: Walter Fisher on May 28, 2015, 09:59:24 PM

Yup, I second that, impossible without a song.

Walter :)

Title: Re: Flycatcher ID, please
Post by: Dinusaur on May 28, 2015, 11:27:48 PM

Thanks. It is time to learn their songs and differentiate.