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Gray Flycatcher

Empidonax wrightii ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: TYRANNIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

A typical species of the Great Basin sagebrush, the Gray Flycatcher can be quickly recognized not by its drab plumage, but by its habit of slowly wagging its tail downwards.

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Calls

  • Song
  • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song a rough, two-noted "chlup, chlup." Call an upwardly inflected "prit."

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