Flycatchers
The tyrant flycatchers are the largest bird family in the Americas, and the hardest to tell apart. They sit upright on an exposed perch, sally out for an insect and return to the same spot. The phoebes pump their tails; the kingbirds are big enough to name on sight; many of the rest are honestly left at genus.
Several of the small Empidonax flycatchers are so alike that the only reliable way to separate them in the field is by voice. Ornithologists spent a century arguing over specimens before somebody listened to them.
- Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens
- Empidonax flycatcher, unidentified Empidonax sp.
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
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