Flycatcher ID, please
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Flycatcher ID, please

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Dinusaur

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on: May 27, 2015, 11:22:12 PM
Three poses of the same bird at Colonel Sam Smith Park. Thanks in advance.



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Reply #1 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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Walter Fisher

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Reply #2 on: May 28, 2015, 09:59:24 PM
Yup, I second that, impossible without a song.

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Reply #3 on: May 28, 2015, 11:27:48 PM
Thanks. It is time to learn their songs and differentiate.
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